Shards of Honor
Book 1 of Vorkosigan Saga
Language: English
Publisher: Baen
Published: Jan 2, 1986
Date Read:
Oct 20, 2013
Form:
Novel
Pages:
293
Read Status:
read
Shelves:
read
Word Count:
78979
Book Details
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Description:
Relive the adventures of Miles and Mark in the first of The Vorkosigan Series. Bujold has created two of the most engaging, interesting, complicated protagonists in science fiction . . . readers will enjoy this book. VOYA. ** ### Amazon.com Review Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr. Will Mother ever understand? And can such an odd beast as love survive an interplanetary war? ### Review ''[Bujold] gives [her] characters enough emotional depth, and enough sense, to raise their story beyond cliché.'' --*Locus* ''Bujold has a nice hand with the complications . . . All in all, *Shards* is a worthy effort, and worth reading for any fan of SF romance.'' --*Analog*Cordelia Naismith is enjoying a baptism of fire. Her first mission is to captain a throwaway warship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an entire enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she is forced into an uneasy peace with her nemesis: Lord Aral Vorkosigan. Discovering that astrocartography is not the soundest training for a military leader, Cordelia rapidly finds herself the prisoner of the Barrayaran Captain Aral Vorkosigan, also known as 'The Butcher of Komarr'. But the notorious captain is not quite the beast Cordelia was expecting and a grudging respect develops between the two of them. As captor and prisoner on an abandoned outpost planet, the honourable captain and the resolute scientist must rely on each others' trust to survive a trek across dangerous terrain, thus sparking a relationship that shares the struggles of culture and politics between their worlds.