Mirror Dance (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1470824582 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Miles tries to help his brother but ends up injured, placed on cryogenic suspension and then lost in intergalactic limbo. And that's just in the first 100 pages. Mirror Dance won the 1995 Hugo Award for Science Fiction. . Not only is he deformed and undersized but he has a cloned brother who gets into a jam in the free enterprise plague spot known as Jackson's Whole. The following 300 pages add a wealth more to this fantastic tale that's both humorous and finely written. Miles Vorkosigan faces more than his share of troubles as the protagonist in Mirror Dance
The mission goes awry, Miles' rescue attempt goes even more wrong, and Miles ends up killed and placed in cryogenic suspension for future resuscitation. Then, as if that weren't bad enough, the cryo-container is lost! Now it is up to the confused, disturbed Mark to either take Miles' place as heir of the Vorkosigan line or redeem himself by finding and saving Miles.. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. Read by Grover GardnerThe dwarfish, fetally damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on
A series for the ages. A thinking person’s delight. book guy I'm going to post the same review for the entire Vorkosigan saga. MANY years ago (shudder to think - we only had books made of paper) I was stuck at an airport with nothing to read. The only book I could find in the store was named Cordelia's Honor. It was about a woman and written by a woman. Fr. A fine, but not entirely fun, read William Locke On one hand, this is a writing tour-de-force. It unwinds the tortuous relationship between Miles and his clone-brother Mark, delves into some of the issues which will likely be paramount when cryopreservation and revival are common, considers sibling rivalry from many perspectives (including mult. One of Bujold's darkest - possible spoilers I have often felt like some of Bujold's novels are almost at YA level, but this ain't one of them. Dark, depressing and outright sad at times, violent and extremely grim at others, this book was sometimes hard for me to read. I thought it was a good read, but it's hard to say I enjoyed it! Still,