The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)

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The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication order) #2)

by Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)

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Miles Vorkosigan is the leader of a fast growing mercenary force and the hero of an all-out space battle. At the end of the conflict, he heads a fleet of 19 ships and 3,000 troops. The only problem is, it is treason--as in, a hanging offense--to command a private army.

Mass Market Paperback, 315 pages

Published August 1st 1986 by Baen (first published 1986)

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May 06, 2013 Kathleen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Note: Written in 1986, Bujold includes a hermaphrodite as a major secondary character. What's disturbing is how she refers to Thorne as "it" rather than "he" or "she" or some gender-neutral pronoun. In English, "he" is sometimes used to refer to male or female, but if she doesn't like that, why not invent such a pronoun? It's an invented planet, with invented technology and customs. Each time I read "it" I cringed. It's awkward. At one point, an announcement is made, addressed to "gentlemen, lad...more

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Dec 21, 2011 Andreea Daia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action-adventure, read-2011, recommended, space-opera, science-fiction

I always thought that boys of Miles age (his age as in "The Warrior's Apprentice," that is) are particularly chafing in their self-centeredness, in their self-absorption which prevents them from understanding that their inoffensive acts of "proving themselves" are in actuality harmful to the people they love. Ms. Bujold creates such a believable character that two thirds of the book, I wanted to castigate and point out to him the consequences of his "quest." He is young, consumed by self-doubts...more I always thought that boys of Miles age (his age as in "The Warrior's Apprentice," that is) are particularly chafing in their self-centeredness, in their self-absorption which prevents them from understanding that their inoffensive acts of "proving themselves" are in actuality harmful to the people they love. Ms. Bujold creates such a believable character that two thirds of the book, I wanted to castigate and point out to him the consequences of his "quest." He is young, consumed by self-doubts and lack of identity, frantically searching for a sense of direction, and in his search making mistake after mistake. Ms. Bujold's main character is decidedly real.

When I first pondered at the message of this novel and how to write my review, I planned in touching the fact that Miles creates a word in which he belongs, a safe harbor for "broken" people like him, in need of a second chance. But now that I'm writing it, I feel that it's more important to talk about Miles's honor.

He starts his journey a virgin, not sexually but integrity wise. His is a fool, but an innocent one, who yet has to break his word. Despite wading in a river of blunders, he somehow succeeds to hold on to that most important principle he inherited from his parents. When he finally understands that doing the right thing means favoring the loved ones' happiness over his own happiness, he is put in the distressing situation of choosing between his word (which at the time he equals with his honor) and the right thing to do. For Miles, failing to keep a promise is a rite of passage, his transition from childhood to manhood, from phantasms to reality. And in his decision, he neither fails nor loses his honor.

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Jul 30, 2012 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, humor, coming-of-age, military, space-opera

A total delight. A space opera full of comedy while wrapped around tragedy, a social satire, and a coming of age tale. Though third in the Vorkosigan series, it is the first in the series with Miles Vorkosigan as the star. Son of a plantetary Prime Minister, Miles at 17 gets booted out of the Imperial Academy due to limitations of a birth defect affecting his legs and soon finds a secret pathway to fulfill his ambitions for accomplishments while on an interstellar excursion. From a small act of...more

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Jun 03, 2012 Kent rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, science-fiction, reviewed

Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation begins with a quote that he pretends is from Ecclesiastes: "The simulacrum is never what hides the truth-- it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true."

I expected a lot from The Warrior's Apprentice, but I did not expect a thoughtful meditation on the mutable nature of truth. This is a world in which illusion and reality flicker, sway, and meld.

Miles Vorkosigan is a crippled, manic, manipulative, often-cheery genius. His is a...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Renée rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: alternate-history-future, ebook, future, own-it, politics, scifi, spies, suspense

Unlike a lot of people, I actually am glad I started the series back with the story of Miles's parents. I feel like that gives you a good solid foundation for his character and the history he's coming from that are integral to who he is and why he does what he does.
In fact, I enjoyed his parents's story so much I was actually very annoyed they were relegated to secondary characters immediately after the first omnibus. I still hold out hope that maybe we'll get story filler someday, but probably...more

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Sep 30, 2012 Mei-Lu rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Goodreads tags this as Vorkosigan Saga #3, which number refers to where the book fits chronologically, rather than when it was published. Since it is the first book to feature Miles Vorkosigan as its protaganist, a lot of people suggest it as the first book you should read in the series. Lois McMaster Bujold is the best person to address this, which she does here: http://www.myspace.com/loismcmasterbu... I've been more or less reading the Vorkosigan books in Bujold's suggested order because I re...more Goodreads tags this as Vorkosigan Saga #3, which number refers to where the book fits chronologically, rather than when it was published. Since it is the first book to feature Miles Vorkosigan as its protaganist, a lot of people suggest it as the first book you should read in the series. Lois McMaster Bujold is the best person to address this, which she does here: http://www.myspace.com/loismcmasterbu... I've been more or less reading the Vorkosigan books in Bujold's suggested order because I read one book (A Civil Campaign) out of sequence and felt that one of the reasons why I didn't enjoy it was because I hadn't read any of the other lead-up books. I really wish I was one of those people who can happily pick up a series in the middle and then go back when and if they want to because there's something like 20 books in this series and I'd *much* rather skip to the much-loved ones rather than slog through the entire thing. Oh well.

One note about reading order: a major plot point in this book is the terrible secret about Elena's parentage. It's possible to read this book and learn the secret when Elena does but since the first two books deal with Elena's father in detail readers may find this storyline more satisfying if they read this book third rather than first.

As I mentioned earlier, this is the first of the Vorkosigan Saga books to feature Miles (the series's protaganist) as its hero. The first two books focus on Miles's mother, Cordelia Naismith. I really enjoy Miles as a character and I can see why Bujold has expended so much ink writing about his adventures. He's a little bit like Bean from the Ender's Game series or Tyrion from George RR Martin's books - he's incredibly intelligent but because he's basically a dwarf, he is constantly underestimated by other characters. His physical liabilities also mean that Miles must be very strategic about how he approaches problems - he is literally all brain and no brawn. Despite the fact that Miles comes from one of the richest and most powerful families on his world, he is despised and looked down on because his culture values physical perfection. The fact that Miles is so challenged means that, despite his status and genius, Miles is a character audiences can instantly relate to. He's an underdog and no matter how successful he becomes he is *always* the underdog because he is always at a physical disadvantage. I suspect that the continuing success and popularity of the series has a lot to do with this basic fact of Miles. Unlike other heros, he can't get too powerful.

I don't want to get too much into the plot because I don't want to spoil it. I'll simply say that Miles is 18 (or so) during this story. He's in love with a girl he's grown up with (a girl who is physically perfect but is technically of lower rank). He wants very badly to be accepted, but he wants to earn his acceptance. He does not want anyone to say that he has achieved anything because of his family's wealth and power. He wants to be "normal" - he does not want to be special or treated as though he's special. But of course he IS special. He's a genius. He's a survivor. He literally looks and thinks differently from everyone else. And that means that as badly as Miles wants a normal life, he's not going to get one. It is clear to the reader, even though it is not clear to Miles, that he one of those storied people who have greatness thrust upon him. Greatness IS thrust upon him in this book and part of the fun of the book is to see how Miles handles it. The other fun part is that it takes place in a science fiction reality with spaceships and shiny weapons. I personally am not a fan of futuristic storylines that feature emperors and aristocrats but I understand that I'm in the minority. I give Bujold credit for acknowledging the political, moral and ethical ramifications of setting her story in novels in a society which is essentially led by a military dictatorship but that doesn't mean I'm comfortable with it.

I enjoyed this book but I am not in love with this series. I can see why other people love it, but I do not.(less)

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Apr 02, 2013 Trike rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2013, science-fiction, space-opera

I was told this book was quite funny. "Hilarious" some have said. I did not find it to be so. There are amusing moments, to be sure, but nothing of the laugh-out-loud variety. So I did carry that disappointment with me through the book.

That said, by the end of the novel I was a convert to the legions of Miles Vorkosigan fans. He is a singular character who defines the word "protagonist": he makes things happen. Young and physically stunted, in more ways than one he makes you root for the little...more

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Mar 27, 2013 Rebecca rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

Having recently read the newest Vorkosigan book, which was a little disappointing (and also having gotten badly bogged down in one of the farming passages of Anna Karenina and really needing a break), I decided to revisit the first Miles Vorkosigan book.

It's every bit as delightful as I'd remembered. Miles' hyperactivity is infectious--the plot ricochets off the walls, bouncing along with frantic and endlessly entertaining energy. I have to admire Bujold's structuring--the number of hoops she ma...more

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Mar 13, 2013 Kim Ryser rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I honestly don't remember the last time I read a book that I had no expectations about that I enjoyed this much. I normally avoid traditional sci-fi like the plague, but after hearing enough good things, I decided why not try it.

I am having trouble summing up my reaction to this book. It was a tremendous amount of fun and Miles Vorkosigan is one of the best characters I've ever encountered. He is so intelligent, so fearless, so bold, that I think most writers would have him be a bit sociopathic....more

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Feb 13, 2013 Jordi Vicens rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 20thcentury, english, science-fiction

The Vorkosigan Saga

It's been a long overdue read of mine this series. I've been wanting to read it for a long, long time.

I was quite prejudiced when it came to start reading it because I thought I wouldn't like it at all.

Actually, it reads quite well, in a Golden Age of Scifi spaceopera way. It has all the elements I got to love in a spaceopera when I was a teen: Long saga, intelligent characters, a cohesive universe... Oh! I would have loved it very much back then.

Nowadays? I haven't loved it t...more

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Jan 11, 2013 Kirsten rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, locus-award, best-books, sci-fi-and-fantasy, space-opera, my-audible, military-science-fiction

The first Miles Vorkosigan book. It's hard to believe that a 17 year old could get in as much trouble as this kid without getting killed. Living on Barrayar must make you mature fast. Or maybe he just is that much of genius.

I really love Miles, but I do wish I'd seen more of his mother, Cordelia.

This book just throws you into it. Intrigue, machinations, actions scenes. What fun! Miles is a great character. But an incredibly unique one. 4 foot 9, a twisted spine, hunchback in a society that hates...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Jordan Steinhoff rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This was a really great book.

A balance somewhere between the Seafort Saga and Honor Harrington.

The same sort of driven but flawed military character. The same sort of society stacked against them. The same sort of drive at all costs and the same sort of extreme escalation.

Different motivations than either of those characters though. A much lighter style of writing make this a very different read than either of those.

Miles Vorkosigan looking to somehow make a name for himself when he cannot live...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Kate rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, sci-fi

I've come to the Vorkosigan party late thanks to the fact these books were never published in the UK. However, thanks to the miracle of internet shopping I have been able to indulge in a Miles-fest over the past few weeks.

I'm seriously impressed with Bujold's story-telling ability, and her character construction. Miles is a wonderful, flawed and altogether totally human character. His disabilities/deformities are written about in an unflinching and pragmatic way, you don't feel sorry for him, y...more

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Nov 22, 2012 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Précis Miles Vorkosigan washed out of the Imperial Military academy when he is injured during the physical portion of the tests. This is because of his brittle bones resulting from attempt on his father's life while he was in his mother's womb. Despondent about his failure and laden with guilt, he chooses to go to Beta Colony to visit his maternal grandmother.
He accidently gets involved in a minor issue that leads to his forming the Dendarri Mercenaries under the guise of Admiral Miles Naismith...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Amy Raby rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One of my all-time favorite books. While this is an adult SF novel rather than a YA, it is essentially a coming-of-age story, and one of the many things I like about it is how different it is from most coming-of-age stories I read. In so many such stories, the parents are absent, incompetent, neglectful, or abusive.

Not so here! Miles's mother was exposed to a toxin while Miles was in utero. As a result, Miles is deformed and disabled. It would be easy to set up a story where the parents react ne...more

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Sep 06, 2012 kat rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2012

This author has been recommended to me, so I picked this up when I saw it in my neighbor's getting-rid-of box.

Pretty generic and uninspired space opera. For the way the only main female character (Elena) was written, I would have guessed this was a male author. Her complete passivity and lack of an actual personality or motivations was bad enough, without the main character constantly comparing her to a greyhound or thoroughbred horse. Ugh. (view spoiler)...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Brian Rush rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is the first volume of the Vorkosigan saga that actually has Miles Vorkosigan as a main character. Again, I rate books based on the three factors plot/theme/conflict, characters, and language. As usual, Bujold gets very high rankings on the first two. Of those two, characterization is her strongest point.

Miles Vorkosigan is simply a BRILLIANT fictional character. Absolutely amazing in his inner conflicts, his awesome talents, the issues he carries of his legendary father and his stunte...more

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Jun 10, 2012 Leons1701 rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: sf, owned

Despite the horrible generic mid 80's budget SF cover, this is anything but generic. I'm hugely tempted to give it 5 stars, but Bujold has done so much better later in the series that it seems unfair to the latter books. This is the official introduction of my favorite deformed dwarf (yes, I like Miles better than Tyrion)
Miles has "Issues". Lots of them. First of all, he's the son and grandson of two of Barrayar's greatest military heroes. In fact, his father is THE "Great Man" of his generatio...more

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May 05, 2012 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of Space Opera

Shelves: favorites, fiction, novels, science-fiction

This is the book where I fell in love with the Vorkosigan Saga. It's rare I can say I fall in love with a character in a book, but I fell hard for Miles Vorkosigan, which is why this book gets five stars. Not because it's mind-expanding or has amazing prose--but because I loved the character so much. This is the third book chronologically in this series, the first two books, among the first things Bujold ever wrote focus on Miles' parents--this is the one where he comes into his own. Miles is bo...more

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May 03, 2012 Christine Edison rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In high school, I read a lot of science fiction, but somehow I missed this series. What a pleasure it has been to discover it now. The Vorkosigan books begin with Shards of Honor (see my review), but here's not a bad place to start. Miles Vorkosigan is brash, brainy, and has cojones of steel to pull off what he does here -- he reminds me of Slippery Jim deGriz from Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books. I also liked that Miles owns up to his mistakes and tries to take care of those who are...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Jacey rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, humour, favorites

I shouldn't have... I really shouldn't have. For a start I didn't have time and there's the fact that I've already read it and there are so many other books waiting for my attention... But I went along to the Baen Free Library site and...well it was there. Even so I could have just downloaded it and kept it for later... but I read the first sentence and I was hooked.

Yes, I've read this before but it remains one of my favourite Miles Vorkosigan books and a perfect introduction to the maddening, h...more I shouldn't have... I really shouldn't have. For a start I didn't have time and there's the fact that I've already read it and there are so many other books waiting for my attention... But I went along to the Baen Free Library site and...well it was there. Even so I could have just downloaded it and kept it for later... but I read the first sentence and I was hooked.

Yes, I've read this before but it remains one of my favourite Miles Vorkosigan books and a perfect introduction to the maddening, hyperactive, totally brilliant little runt. Miles is 17, trying to get into the trying to get into the Barrayaran military academy on his own merits, which means competing against, or training with, the perfect physical specimens who are ideal for the Barrayaran war machine. Miles, barely four feet six tall, crook-backed and brittle boned due to a Soltoxin gas attack on his mother while he was in her womb, doesn't stand a chance of passing the physical, but he's petitioned for his test results to be aggregated, so if he can score close to 100% on the written, he's in. All he's got to do is get round the obstacle course without breaking anything.

He falls at the first hurdle, literally, and washes out with two broken legs.

So his parents send him off to visit his Betan grandmother with the faithful (if psychopathic) Sgt Bothari and Bothari's daughter, Elena, in attendance.

You've just got to love Miles. Things HAPPEN to him... or happen because of him. Firstly he picks up a couple of strays, Baz, a Barrayaran deserter on the skids and Arde Mayhew a jump ship pilot who is holding out in a siege, trying to preserve the last working jump ship that his implant will fly. Then he picks up a ship... the same said jump ship... on an impulse to help Mayhew keep flying. Once he's got a ship, a pilot and an engineer (Baz) he needs a cargo, because of course he's now also got a debt, which he's secured against some land that he owns back on Barrayar. Unfortunately the land is still radioactive and likely to be so for the next few hundred years at least, but that's a minor point.

With me so far?

So the only cargo available is a load of agricultural implements (OK, they're weapons really) destined for the losing side in a turf-war. In order to deliver then he needs to get to the other side of a blockade run by a bunch of mercenaries.

It's all going do well... and then Elena is threatened and the whole plan starts to swirl down the toilet. But Miles is in overdrive. One thing leads to another and a small untruth turns into a colossal lie and then the whole thing escalates into a huge bloody fantasy. Miles, using his mother's surname, Naismith, finds himdelf in charge of a mercenary fleet, flying the whole operation by the seat of his pants, manipulating people cleverly to cover the gaps in his knowledge and searching for a way out that will allow him to retain some semblance of personal honour while not letting down his crews.

This book is a wild ride, at times laugh out loud funny and at other times heartbreaking. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read any Vorkosigan books. It's a superb introduction to one of Bujold's best characters.
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May 03, 2011 Daniel Roy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sf

Having just finished "Shards of Honor" and "Barrayar", I simply couldn't wait to pick up the first book in the Miles Vorkosigan series. Unfortunately for me, it seems Mrs. Bujold has shifted tones when going from Cordelia to her son Miles.

Where Cordelia's novels were sometimes funny, sometimes inclined to the romantic, but as a whole well-crafted and dramatic, "The Warrior's Apprentice" feels more like a running joke. It seems Mrs. Bujold has decided she would show Miles is human by making him w...more

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Mar 27, 2011 Andreas rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was the second novel that McMaster Bujold wrote, and the first one about Miles proper. Miles fails the entrance exam for the Barrayar (military) Service Academy in spectacularly humiliating fashion. The physical handicaps caused by his in utero poisoning make him short, crooked, brittle boned and ugly. As a young Vor lordling, he doesn’t really need to work for a living, but he is expected, and expects of himself, to serve Barrayar. For now, he is sent off to visit his grandmother (Cordelia...more

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Mar 12, 2011 Kyle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Warrior's Apprentice is the third book in the Vorkosigan Saga, and it focuses primarily on Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, and his ascent into manhood. I thought this installment was a bit faster paced than the previous two books. Thankfully, Bujold employed more dialogue, and less instances where you could see what Miles was thinking.

As with the other books, the entire story is told through a single character's perspective. I still feel this hinders Bujold's writing because she tries to build u...more

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Jan 05, 2011 Sarah Yoffa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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One of the slickest Comedies of Errors ever written--plus, hey, exploding spaceships! :) Lois is a master weaver of plots, characters, settings and extrapolation of science facts. There's a reason she's won enough Hugos and Nebulas to make a necklace out of them!! This book is not the "first" in the series but it is a really good starting point for new readers because it introduces the entire premise upon which the balance of the series is built. Much of the reference back to the earlier two boo...more

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Dec 12, 2010 Elizabby rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the start of the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan - I think the best space opera series I have ever read. I read them at the library, then couldn't live without owning copies of them all and even pre-ordered the last one which has just been released. C'mon Lois - write faster!

I think the thing that sets this series apart is that Miles is very much a flawed and real person. He makes mistakes, does well-intentioned but ultimately not well thought-out things and learns to live with the conseq...more

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Jan 19, 2010 Adrienne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Miles Vorkosigan has a famous military father, whom he wants to impress. The best way to do this is (obviously) to get into the Military Academy, but that won't be easy. It's not that Miles is stupid, or lazy. He just has very brittle bones, which means he has to be super careful when doing anything physical, and he's also a bit less than 5 feet tall. So Miles makes it through the written entrance exams fairly easily, but at the beginning of the first physical test, he breaks both legs and effec...more

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Nov 21, 2009 Sara rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club-sf-fantasy, science-fiction

The Warrior's Apprentice introduced me to a memorable character--Miles Vorkosigan. His adventures are so fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, one-thing-after-another! It's great fun. The series starring Miles has been around for a couple of decades, and I can see why it is so popular.

In this book, Miles wants to become a military officer but fails his physical due to his fragile bone structure (a birth defect caused by in-utero poisoning). Having some time off and not knowing what to do with himself,...more

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Mar 28, 2010 Lighthearted rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Miles Vorkosigan is just shy of 5 feet tall, has a crooked spine and incredibly brittle bones. He’d hoped to follow in his family’s military footsteps but an accident in the testing process resulted in his early discharge from the Academy. Unfortunately, there’s not much else for a royal to do on the planet of Barrayar, a world which values physical strength and military prowess. At his father’s suggestion, he sets off for his mother’s home world of Beta Colony for an extended vacation.

Once on B...more

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Mar 06, 2011 Suz rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club, kindle, science-fiction, space-opera, women-sff-authors, free, military

This book is hilarious, entertaining, and interesting all at once. It's a humorous story about an intrepid little (literally) man who is bumbling his way through space. I've never read a humorous space opera that was so much fun, and yet serious. It's the first story in the Vorkosigan Saga that features Miles Vorkosigan himself, and I hope it sets the tone for the series.

Miles, a deformed scion of the impressive Vorkosigan line, must not only deal with his physical disability, but the attitudes...more

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“Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep."
"Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew.
"Not really."
Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?” — 22 people liked it

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