Clearly I need to read these books. Any advice on what order in which they should be read.
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Anne W. - Nov 22, 2004 3:37:59 pm PST #6406 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Atropa - Nov 22, 2004 3:39:06 pm PST #6407 of 10002
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Clearly I need to read these books. Any advice on what order in which they should be read.
I was just about to ask the same thing myself.
Jesse - Nov 22, 2004 3:42:28 pm PST #6408 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There are new-ish omnibus reissues that put the books chronological by story, not by order of writing. I vote those. Cordelia's Honor is about Cordelia, Miles's mother, and then his stories start with Young Miles.
Anne W. - Nov 22, 2004 3:43:23 pm PST #6409 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Thanks, Jesse!
Jesse - Nov 22, 2004 3:46:15 pm PST #6410 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have to thank erinaceous for making me read them. I was suspicious, but she did not lead me astray.
Oh, if you don't find the omnibus editions, the first Miles book is The Warrior's Apprentice.
Atropa - Nov 22, 2004 3:47:03 pm PST #6411 of 10002
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There are new-ish omnibus reissues that put the books chronological by story, not by order of writing. I vote those. Cordelia's Honor is about Cordelia, Miles's mother, and then his stories start with Young Miles.
So which omnibus thingamie should I start with?
Ginger - Nov 22, 2004 3:48:09 pm PST #6412 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Cordelia's Honor consists of two novels, Shards of Honor and Barrayar. I also think you should start with the two Cordelia books.
Jesse - Nov 22, 2004 3:51:08 pm PST #6413 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I read the young Miles stuff first, which was fine, but if you want strict chronology, start with Cordelia.
§ ita § - Nov 22, 2004 3:52:27 pm PST #6414 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jude Law gets cast in almost every book I read. He's gifted like that.
Vonnie K - Nov 22, 2004 3:57:42 pm PST #6415 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I just finished the omnibus Cordelia's Honor and both books are immensely trilling to read. (I liked Barraya more, but that's because I'm a bloodthirstry wench.) They are fast-faced, melodramatic, full of angst and carnage and adventure.
I loved both SoH and Barrayar, but they have very little Sci-Fi elements to them. With the exception of few technical advances (admittedly key to the plot), these books could have set in Europe somewhere in 18th century or thereabout.
"Warrior's Apprentice", which I'm reading now, has more of a space-opera-ish vent, it looks like.