![]() ![]() The first few chapters were originally published as the short story "The Weatherman", and it does feel separate from the rest of the narrative. ![]() The Vor Game doesn't end where you'd expect it to. Miles with a mullet, eh? But, who am I to judge a book by it's cover? I've read all these stories before, but the humor and twists are still just as delightful. The cover of this omnibus is a hilarious trainwreck. The plot is good enough, btu there just wasn't enough substance to keep my interest going, seeing as I knew just how short the story would be. This wasn't my favourite of the Miles Vorkosigan stories, probably because I'd just read Labyrinth and really wanted a full-length Miles story. A little expansion or inclusion in a larger story may have improved this tale. ![]() This novella introduces one of the most interesting characters in the Vorkosigan saga, Taura - a gentically engineered human-wolf hybrid of sorts - but suffers due to its short length. It also foreshadows Miles future as he works as the voice of his father. ![]() This novella is basically a murder mystery that works well enough but could have worked better if it had been incorporated into a full book. Filled with political intrigue and swashbuckling derring do, this proves to be much more in the realms of the later novels. This worked much better as a mystery than 'The Mountains Of Mourning' - which may have well been a dummy run for this book - and proves that Bujold is a master mystery writer. ![]()
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