Miles grows up to become a supremely charismatic, witty, compulsively driven military genius who triumphantly transcends the difficulties caused by his brittle bones and 4ft 9in (1.45m) stature. Shards of Honor ( 1986) and its immediate sequel Barrayar (July-October 1991 Analog 1991) which won a 1992 Hugo, deal with the romance between Lord Aral Vorkosigan and the sophisticated off-worlder Cordelia Naismith the child of their marriage is Miles Vorkosigan, born with severe physical handicaps due to a politically inspired attempt to Poison his father.
Most of these stories feature members of the Vorkosigan family, part of an elite military caste from the planet Barrayar, recently rediscovered by galactic civilization after regressing into semifeudalism. Almost all her published sf work is part of a loose series of often humorous adventures set in a future of feuding galactic colonies connected by Faster-than-Light " Wormhole jumps". He rescues the Emperor of Barrayar from a tangled web of intrigue by the tricky Commander Cavilo, and watchs his back for the arctic base commander seeking bloody vengeance.(1949- ) US author who began publishing sf with "Barter" for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, March/April 1985. Trouble only the combined forces of the Free Dendarii Mercenaries can get them out of. Together, they can get into a lot of trouble. Miles, of course, does his best to salvage the situation, but, as always, there's a surprise.
Reassigned to investigate a suspicious military buildup near a wormhole nexus in the distant Hegen Hub, he revives his undercover persona as mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith to negotiate between competing powers for control of the wormhole. That assignment turns out about as well as expected. more » e narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to an arctic training camp, where he is expected to predict weather and to ascertain whether he can get along with his subordinates and superiors in the regular forces.
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