About the Vorkosigan books

I found my copy, but it would be nearly two full pages, which miiiight be pushing the limits of Fair Use. I’ll instead just edit it down to the list and their before/after circumstances. Unedited, it’s much better, so that’s good reason to read it!

[ in dropdown, because, of course there be spoilers! ]

Miles confession of past loves

“The usual progression, I suppose. Hopeless first love, this and that over the years, unrequited mad crushes.”

“Elena. The daughter of one of my father’s Armsmen, who was my bodyguard when I was young.”
“Is she still on Barrayar?”
“No, she emigrated years ago. Had a galactic military career and retired with the rank of captain. She’s a commercial shipmaster now.”

“There was Elli. She was a free mercenary trainee when I first met her.”
“What is she now?”
“Fleet Admiral. Actually.”

“There was Taura.”
“What was she, when you first met her?”
“A Jacksonian body-slave. Of House Ryoval - very bad news, House Ryoval used to be.”
[snip] So what is she now?"
“Master Sergeant in a mercenary fleet.”
“The same fleet as, um, the this?”
“Yes.”

“mm…there was Rowan. That was…that was brief.”
“And she was…?”
“A technical serf of the House Fell. She’s a cryo-revival surgeon in an independent clinic on Escobar, now, though, I’m happy to say. Very Pleased with her new citizenship.”

“Do you notice a trend in all this, Lord Vorkosigan?”
“Yes,” he replied glumly. “None of them would marry me and come live on Barrayar.”
“So…what about the unrequited mad crush?”
“Ah. That was Rian. I was young, just a new lieutenant of a diplomatic mission.”
“And what does she do, now?”
He cleared his throat. “Now? She’s an empress.” He added, under the pressure of Ekaterin’s wide stare, “of Cetaganda. They have several, you see.”

Boy, put in those terms, that’s pretty intimidating (and yeah, I never noticed the pattern.)

I love him so much. He is one of my all-time favorites too.

@Spice_Weasel : I see the appeal of Aral and I really admire his marriage to Cordelia, but I confess I go for the quietly super-competent stable types, the ones who are making things happen in the background. And yeah,Simon Illyan reminds me in some ways of my husband (although not at all in others, haha). Although I don’t think I’m much like Lady Alys , in either the good or the bad ways…

I came home yesterday to a rotating book rack and Cordelia’s Honor looking at me as I came through the door. It was a bit surprising after this thread had the Vorkosigan books on my mind, plus, you know, a book display like one might see in a drug store in the living room.

My wife got some new vendor fixtures to use at shows, and was testing arrangements.

The Vorkosigan books are on my list to reread at some point. They were so good the first time through.

Bujold does a good job presenting engineering in her books (even in tbe fantasies). When there’s a big complicated thing to be built, we see all the big and little difficulties that turn up (and of course one of her main characters is an engineer specializing in construction - and he’s an absolute hardass about safety and quality control)

I usually reread them once a year, not this year though, didn’t feel the impulse for some reason, but this thread is certainly starting to wet my appetite, I wonder if I could read them all before January.

-once again notes the similarities, chuckles, and goes off to buy a “I guess I’m the EVIL twin!” hat-

Dammit, now I want to go back and reread them all, but my TBR queues (Kindle and hard copy) of new books are so long and I have four more ordered books to pick up from my local bookstore tomorrow…

Based on her father, Robert Charles McMaster - Wikipedia, who was an expert at nondestructive testing.

Yep - as I should have mentioned