This story takes place in the Vorkosigan universe, but takes place about two hundred years before Miles is born. It’s the story of the development of the Quaddies – genetically engineered humans with a second set of hands instead of feet, bred to live and thrive in zero gravity. It’s very much a cautionary tale […]

This is a great ending to the Confederation novels.    Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr has finally been sent back to her unit on the front, when they’re attacked.    Torin pretty much knows she’s going to die when she hears a bomb coming in on their position, but she instead wakes up in a prison

This is the third book of this series, and due to prior events, Torin Kerr has been promoted to Gunnery Sergeant.     She’s also stuck giving briefings to officers, on a seemingly endless rotation.     So when Major Svensson, who has recently come back from being reduced to pretty much a brain and

Pretty early on in his career, Miles Vorkosigan happened into a mercenary army (long story), and created the character of Admiral Miles Naismith to head that army.      They ended up becoming covert operatives of the Barrayaran intelligence service (so covert that most of the army doesn’t know who their true employers are), but

In Moonflash, Kyreol and her friend Terje went on a journey to see what was beyond the Riverworld where they had grown up, and found that their simple land was part of a larger world with more advanced technology that allows them to travel to the stars.      Kyreol stays there with her mother,

Here’s another technical reread, though I’m pretty sure my original read was back in high school.     There’s also another book in the series, so I was having some weird déjà vu moments that ended up not panning out, because what I was remembering must happen in the next book. The books ends up

I’ve had this book in the Tote of Shame ™ for a while – I think because I’d never read any of the author’s work before, so I really wasn’t sure to expect.     So I’ve been passing it by because I never know if it’s going to fit whatever reading mood I’m in