Winterfair Gifts Vorkosigan Saga eBook Lois McMaster Bujold
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Miles Vorkosigan and his fiancée Ekaterin are enjoying the Winterfair festivities and wedding gifts on their home planet Barrayar, but Miles’ enemies are at work. Sergeant Taura, a genetically engineered young woman Miles befriended, helps uncover the sinister plot. A double dose of romance enlivens this delightful novella in the New York Times bestselling Vorkosigan saga.
- A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR -
"Bujold is one of the best writers of SF adventures to come along in years."
- Locus
“Bujold is not just a master of plot, she is a master of emotion.”
- SF Site
“A superb craftsman and stylist, Ms. Bujold is well on her way to becoming one of the great voices of speculative fiction.”
- Rave Reviews
“Bujold has a gift, nearly unique in science fiction, for the comedy of manners.”
- Chicago Sun Times
“Superb far-future saga.”
- Publishers Weekly on the 'Vorkosigan' series
Bujold's "work remains among the most enjoyable and rewarding in contemporary SF."
- Publishers Weekly
Lois McMaster Bujold was born in 1949, the daughter of an engineering professor at Ohio State University, from whom she picked up her early interest in science fiction. She now lives in Minneapolis, and has two grown children. She began writing with the aim of professional publication in 1982. She wrote three novels in three years; in October of 1985, all three sold to Baen Books, launching her career. Bujold went on to write many other books for Baen, mostly featuring her popular character Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, his family, friends, and enemies. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Her fantasy from Eos includes the award-winning Chalion series and the Sharing Knife series.
Winterfair Gifts Vorkosigan Saga eBook Lois McMaster Bujold
Before becoming a kindle owner, I discovered authors and books by wandering the stacks in bookstores and my nearest public library branch. I had been working my way alphabetically through the mystery section at my public library, assisted by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and the Mystery Guild, when I realized I needed to purchase an e-reader. There were no more walls in my home for additional bookcases to hold books plus we could not afford a larger home with more walls. Maybe it was all the money I spent on books. Unlike another reviewer, I would never find myself in an airport without a book to read. I travel with books, which makes my luggage a tad heavy on the scales. Another reason for an e-reader.Back to this novella: this was one of my early Sci Fi and Fantasy genre discoveries after getting my Kindle. This is not a genre which fills many inches on my wooden and metal bookshelves. But it was not one I had completely neglected either (there are no Westerns on my bookshelves). I was thrilled when I read this novella from the Vor series by Bujold. It has everything I want from a good novel, novella, or short story. Good characters, good plot, some intelligent humor, and a bit of life philosophy. And it was from a prolific author. I decided based on this novella that this author was going on my "buy" list. I love the offbeat character Miles. A bold stroke to make him physically imperfect. I love the cantankerous Vorkosigan universe. It was obvious that I needed to explore the Sci Fi and Fantasy genre more, because by not doing so, I had missed out on this author for nearly three decades.
I am officially old and my retinas are genetically fragile and one is not working so hot. That I, who have only one good working eye (making me a Cyclops) and a couple of decades left at most (since THIS universe could decide MY time is up at any moment), recommend this author and this series as a must read, should be taken under serious consideration by anyone reading my review.
Download a sample. Try this author. IMHO, she is that good. Not-to-be-missed.
Thank you for reading my review.
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Winterfair Gifts Vorkosigan Saga eBook Lois McMaster Bujold Reviews
Bujold provides a series chronology in the back of each volume, which is how I discovered the one Vorkosigan story I didn’t have and hadn’t read, the novella Winterfair Gifts, originally published in a romance anthology, Irresistible Forces, and also available as an e-novella. Told from the point of view of Roic, one of the Vorkosigans’ junior Armsmen, it tells how he and Sergeant Maura, a genetically engineered member of Miles’ old mercenary crew, foil a plot aimed at Miles and his fiancee, Ekaterin, and lets us attend the Vorkosigans’ Winterfair wedding. It’s a sidebar to the series, and a gift to fans.
Long time Bujold fan. In the short story form it's one of the best I've read in a long time from any author.
Looking at Miles' wedding through the eyes of a Barrayan and a Galactic creates this complete picture of the entire event.
The pairing of Roic and Taura is a sheer stroke of brilliance that I've come to expect from Bujold and her characters throughout the Vorkosigan saga.
Can we get another story about the pair please? And I don't mean about Lord & Lady Vorkosigan!
This charming novella is itself a gift from the author to fans of her Vorkosigan series. It follows on from the events in A Civil Campaign with the arrival of guests for the wedding of Miles and Ekaterin. Along with the Bothari-Jeseks and Arde Mayhew, Sergent Taura arrives to celebrate her ex-lover's nuptials. The story is told from the viewpoint of Armsman Roic, who has never seen anyone like Taura before, a huge half human, half mutant, super-soldier with fangs.
Miles does not feature much in this story except as a harried husband-to-be fretting over his bride and the arrangements for the wedding.He is keen to see his guests from his former life enjoy their time on Barrayer and instructs his mother to take Taura under her wing and dress her like a lady and ensure she has a good time. Roic gradually warms to Taura, particularly when they uncover a heinous plot together and he overcomes his awe of her to see her as essentially a lonely but lovely woman.
Good fun as always, will appeal to all fans of this series.
I have loved almost all of Bujold's books and stories. And re-read them for the stories, the characterization, and the humor. That said, this is not one of her best. It's a little lightweight. It lacks the depth of the rest of the Vorkosigan series (or the screwball romance of Shards of Honor). Every author has an "off" day, or work, and of course, there's the subjective factor as well. Some books speak more strongly to some readers than to others. I enjoyed reading it (I can enjoy reading an article about cooking kale if I have nothing better to read) but it won't be the one I read again when I need another Bujold fix.
This novella is fun, neat, diverting, funny, and moving, but not as gripping or substantial (obviously?) as Bujold's full-length Miles Vorkosigan novels. The most interesting thing about it is that it's completely narrated in third person from the point of view of Armsman Roic, a low-ranking Vorkosigan bodyguard/butler. this is also, I suppose the disappointing part of it, because I missed Miles' quirky ironic self-deprecating vision. Anyway, through Roic we witness Miles' wedding to Ektarine Vorsoisson, complete with intriguing wedding gifts, one of which turns out to be more than it at first seems and ends up signifying something about the newly wedded couple that bodes ill for any future enemies. Through Roic, we also learn more about Sergeant Taura, the bioengineered, fanged and clawed giantess with a designed-in short life span. In short, people who are already fans of Bujold's Vorkosigan saga would enjoy this, but people new to her series should probably start with Warrior's Apprentice, the first book about Miles.
The version I read seemed fine I noticed no typos, etc.
Before becoming a kindle owner, I discovered authors and books by wandering the stacks in bookstores and my nearest public library branch. I had been working my way alphabetically through the mystery section at my public library, assisted by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and the Mystery Guild, when I realized I needed to purchase an e-reader. There were no more walls in my home for additional bookcases to hold books plus we could not afford a larger home with more walls. Maybe it was all the money I spent on books. Unlike another reviewer, I would never find myself in an airport without a book to read. I travel with books, which makes my luggage a tad heavy on the scales. Another reason for an e-reader.
Back to this novella this was one of my early Sci Fi and Fantasy genre discoveries after getting my . This is not a genre which fills many inches on my wooden and metal bookshelves. But it was not one I had completely neglected either (there are no Westerns on my bookshelves). I was thrilled when I read this novella from the Vor series by Bujold. It has everything I want from a good novel, novella, or short story. Good characters, good plot, some intelligent humor, and a bit of life philosophy. And it was from a prolific author. I decided based on this novella that this author was going on my "buy" list. I love the offbeat character Miles. A bold stroke to make him physically imperfect. I love the cantankerous Vorkosigan universe. It was obvious that I needed to explore the Sci Fi and Fantasy genre more, because by not doing so, I had missed out on this author for nearly three decades.
I am officially old and my retinas are genetically fragile and one is not working so hot. That I, who have only one good working eye (making me a Cyclops) and a couple of decades left at most (since THIS universe could decide MY time is up at any moment), recommend this author and this series as a must read, should be taken under serious consideration by anyone reading my review.
Download a sample. Try this author. IMHO, she is that good. Not-to-be-missed.
Thank you for reading my review.
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