Borders of Infinity (Three Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)(Library Edition)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (765 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433232065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 495 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The variation in tone across the tales is handled exceptionally well, as we see Miles mourn and get a better look at his relationship with Illyan. The stories include Miles's first outing as a detective, in which he's faced with a case of infanticide in the mutant-phobic hill country; his largest rescue mission ever; and the most distressed damsel for whom he ever played the knight. This collection of short stories includes tales that take place before The Vor Game and others extending past Brothers in Arms.
LOVE LOVE LOVE MILES kg LOVE LOVE LOVE her Miles series. He solves his problems by out thinking his opponents and outside of all boxes.His home world is military minded so the stories have some violence, but not an over abundance and any sex is talked of but no graphic descriptions. Miles gets into the middle of a mess and the mystery is how he can get out of it with the least amount of damage.The first story is set after the Warrior's Apprentice, and is him out thinking a m. Jerry Schell said Miles Vorkosigan is the best. In a society that spent hundreds of years killing off "Muties", the genetically damaged children of parents who's great-great-grandfathers were exposed to radiation during the nuclear holocaust that threw this civilization back to the stone age, Miles looks like one of their number. But he isn't; his warped and damaged body was created because his mother was subjected to a chemical attack while he was in the womb, and the chemical poisons damaged his . Don't confuse this single story with the combined-story book sporting the same name Love this author although her combination publications (combo books versus purchasing each story separately) can be really confusing and sometimes, costly.
In The Mountains of Mourning, Miles is dispatched to a back-country region of Barrayar, where he must act as detective, judge, and executioner in a controversial murder case. The popular adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, a clever and outlandish science-fiction hero for the modern era, continue in these three tales. Lois McMaster Bujold offers three more tales in the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Vorkosigan Saga, called ''space opera at its best'' by Publishers Weekly. And in the title story, Borders of Infinity, Miles infiltrates an escape-proof Cetagandan POW camp and plays hero to the most deeply distressed damsel of his colorful career.. In Labyrinth, Miles adopts his alternate persona as Dendarii Mercenary Admiral Naismith for an undercover mission to rescue an important research geneticist from Jackson's Whole