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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780671578282
ISBN number: 0671578286
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 608
Printing Date: September 01, 1999
Publishing house: Baen
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Previously published as two separate novels, so not new.
Have just re-read them, and am very pleased to report they are as terrific as I remember them.
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This is a reprint of two books I have read. I will probabaly return it.
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If there was any book to bring a non science fiction reader into genre this is the book that will catch you.
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This is the beginning of the vorkosigan books, and it is great. I think it is the best book of the group.
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Definitely not hard sci-fi a la Vernor Vinge or even Larry Niven, but still a good space opera. It's a refreshing change to have strong women in science fiction novels, and Cordelia qualifies as an exceptionally strong and sympathetic protagonist.
Bujold also confronts the issues of rape and torture that inhabit war's dark underbelly. She does so indirectly and without resorting to graphic scenes of voyeuristic torture, but it is nice to see these issues dealt with soberly rather than ignored as they are in many of the sci-fi and fantasy novels I've read.
One downside of reading too much anthropology is that I get annoyed when sci-fi shows and novels reduce all the civilizations of an entire planet to a few simple characteristics (Klingons are warlike, Vulcans are logical, Endor is a "forest" moon that evidently doesn't have any other ecosystems, etc). This novel is guilty of this, although Barrayar, the civilization that the reader gets the closest look at, is fairly interesting.
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