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Lois McMaster Bujold
You need to read Shards of Honor more carefully. It's all in there, some by implication.
Note also that none of the following books are from Cordelia's viewpoint. This closely shapes and constrains what information leaks through. Miles doesn't actually know everything about everything, as much as he would like to; or else the stories don't touch on Cordelia at all, being off-planet or whatever. After a certain point, she would also have been reticent for Jole's sake, as was Aral.
Viewpoint matters, people. Hugely. (At least in tight-third or first person narratives. In real life, too.)
Ta, L.
You need to read Shards of Honor more carefully. It's all in there, some by implication.
Note also that none of the following books are from Cordelia's viewpoint. This closely shapes and constrains what information leaks through. Miles doesn't actually know everything about everything, as much as he would like to; or else the stories don't touch on Cordelia at all, being off-planet or whatever. After a certain point, she would also have been reticent for Jole's sake, as was Aral.
Viewpoint matters, people. Hugely. (At least in tight-third or first person narratives. In real life, too.)
Ta, L.
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Just finished the Assassins of Thasalon. Thank you! It made me wonder. Pen and Des are remarkably compatible, and in Prisoner of Limnos we saw that Pen can control Des at need, even over her objections. But there must be times that they are at odds. How do you think they handle the fact that they just can't get away from each other?
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I just realized that Miles in The Warrior's Apprentice is the Wizard of Oz! Elena the Scarecrow needs an education. Arde the Tin Man is emotionally dependent on wormhole jumps and his "bottle of oil", the green booze. Baz Jesek is, of course, the Cowardly Lion. Miles convinces them that they already have it in them, and flies away in a balloon while the Dendarii cheer. There's no place like Barrayar! Am I close?
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