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The Vor Game

A Miles Vorkosigan Novel

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The Vor Game

By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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 Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under 'house arrest', Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military build-up near a wormhole nexus. Reviving his undercover persona as mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith, his routine information-gathering duty expands to a rescue mission when the Emperor of Barrayar disappears during a political conference on a nearby space station. Miles must use his considerable negotiating skills to avoid a showdown between competing powers for control of the wormhole, find the Emperor, and watch his back for the arctic base commander seeking bloody vengeance.©1990 Lois McMaster Bujold (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks Adventure Science Fiction Fiction Military Polar Region

Critic Reviews

  • 2005 Audie Award Nominee, Science-Fiction
  • Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1991
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I lost the plot. Too many characters and complicated politics. I think it would have been easier if I had read the previous volume

read in sequence

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Kind of reminds me of the Hornblower series. Love the characters and the humour that underpin the crazy and complex situations they blunder through, using wit and guile to win the day (mostly).

Really fun

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what a fantastic protagonist, narrator, plot and story world... I absolutely loved it and can't recommend this story enough.

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