false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170597851m/61900.jpg 61900 4 Omnibus of Shards of Honor and Barrayar. 5366624 book 1996 Cordelia's Honor (Vorkosigan) total:1262|5:579|4:463|3:190|2:26|1:4| 1262 5373 1526 99 4 5 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 12 08:14:26 -0800 2009 Sat Sep 05 12:37:08 -0700 2009 1
My review of Shards of Honour contains spoilers so you are warned before you click on this link: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/580...

My review of the Hugo winning Barrayar ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 13:37:27 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 09:51:49 -0800 2009 1 Cordelia’s Honor, on the surface, seems a standard science fiction novel with just a dash of romance. It has the customary interstellar war, political intrigue, and, of course, high-tech gadgets that we’ve come to expect from our sci-fi. What makes thi...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 15:11:48 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 04:32:41 -0700 2009
Almost not science fiction. Bujold sets most of his tale(s) on the planet whose "backward" culture and technology reads a lot like contemporary earth, maybe even overlaid with nineteenth century attitudes.]]> 5 1 false true Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 07:17:43 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 15:47:12 -0700 2008
Cordelia's Honor is actually a compilation of two of Lois McMaster Bujold's earlier books, Shards of Honor and Barrayar. It is part of the Vorkosigan saga, but I had not read any of the others when I fi...more...]]> 2 2 false true Tue Feb 17 14:21:02 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 14:21:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 03 19:30:15 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 19:36:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Jul 18 13:50:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 12:46:04 -0700 2009 Shards of Honor is by far the weaker book; however, when taken with Barrayar, it works.

Honor sets the stage by introducing the reader to Aral and Cordelia. These two would be lovers are from different, qu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 19:04:53 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 14:41:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 07:02:01 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 07:23:52 -0800 2009
The character's were fun, even if some where a little flat in the beginning, but towards part two the secondary characters get a pit...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 11:36:48 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 14:25:01 -0700 2009
I can't say what it was, beyond the nor...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 14:46:04 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 14:50:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Nov 16 18:25:28 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 18:28:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 22:59:27 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 22:59:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Sat May 30 12:31:40 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 12:38:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Fri Sep 19 14:16:18 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 15:31:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Jun 17 15:03:55 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 15:10:50 -0700 2008
Cordelia's Honor was the first Vorkosigan novel I read, and still my favorite. (I know it's really two books written years ap...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 11:57:18 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 14:06:44 -0700 2008 http://fantasycafe.blogspot.com/2008/04/...

Cordelia's Honor contains the first two chronological novels in Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series, Shards of Honor and Barrayar. These books could also be viewed as prequels to the series since they are not actually...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 12 08:53:02 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 11 07:01:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 11:45:39 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 14:14:46 -0800 2008 Cordelia's Honor is actually two books: Shards of Honor and Barrayar. The first is the story of two career officers, on different sides of a possible war and from very different cultures, who are thrown together in the wilderness of a new world and must make their way together back to civilization. ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 13:13:51 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 17:26:01 -0700 2007 Young Miles rather than this one, even though this is chronologically the earlier. So, I did that, and it's not a decision I regret. I'm a little more than halfway through the mai...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=61900