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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The dwarfish, fetally-damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on an unautho The dwarfish, fetally- damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. But when he decides Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on an unauthorized mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole, things start to get really messy. The mission goes awry, Miles's rescue attempt goes even more wrong, and Miles ends up killed and placed in cryogenic suspension for future resuscitation. Then, as if that weren't bad enough, the cryo-container is lost! Now it is up to the confused, disturbed Mark to either take Miles's place as heir of the Vorkosigan line or redeem himself by finding and saving Miles. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published March 1st by Baen Books first published More Details Original Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure. Miles Vorkosigan. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Mirror Danceplease sign up. I came to the Vorkosigan series late. I was recently happy to replace my measly mass market paperback of Memory with a new trade book version. Now I want a trade paper back of Mirror Dance. I this possible? If Amazon is accurate in separating "mass market paperbacks" from 'trade paperbacks', you should be able to find a good copy by following the links to used books on this page. Sometimes I regret getting rid of most of my omnibus editions, but having hardcover, paperback, omnibus, and ebook editions seemed a touch excessive. I sent them to someone who hadn't read all Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure Vorkosigan books. See 1 question about Mirror Dance…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Mirror Dance Vorkosigan Saga, 8. Apr 04, Evgeny rated it really liked it Shelves: scifi. A buddy read with Choko and Maria. The moment I start describing plot of this book I completely spoil the previous one - to the point that if you read my Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure plot description you might as well skip the previous installment. So if what I say below would not make sense remember: I did it for your own good. Let me talk about a really bad cliche widely used in literature since the humanity discovered the wonders of a written word. A bad guy is out to get you Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure almost succeeds. You somehow m A buddy read with Choko and Maria. You somehow manage to beat him in the very last moment. You take a look at your subdued mortal enemy and see he looks so adorably helpless that you decided to let him go. The moment you turn his back at him he promptly stabs you in the said back, ungrateful swine. Miles' situation was not exactly the same by the end of Brothers in Arms, but close enough. So this Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure starts with a very much expected backstabbing. Once again I simplify matters to minimize spoilers. So now Miles has some very serious problem on his hands, life-and-death situation serious. To make matters worse he is completely helpless to do much most of the time. Sounds obscure? Good, it was exactly my intention. Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure least I gave you some idea about the direction of the plot without giving away much. There were some humorous elements in almost all of previous stories; you find none in here. In fact I would qualify this as grimdark scifi does such genre even exist? The story is dark and gloomy; very much so. This brings an interesting question. Everybody and their brother say that Miles develops as a character in this story. So when people say somebody develops do they mean that the character in question suffers a lot? In other words, suffering is equal to development and the development only comes through suffering. I would be happy if somebody provides me with a counterexample. What I mean is I cannot recall any character living happy life ever being called as "developing". So it is a good book, but expect a lot of suffering, brooding, and really nasty things happening to fairly Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure people. Do not feel too bad for them, after all they are developing. I rate the book with 3. By the way my credit for rounding up for this Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure is all gone, so next time in such a borderline case I will round the rating of its installment down. Rant mode off. View all 48 comments. Mar 29, Choko rated it it was amazing Shelves: sci-fi-fantasy. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same. I am quite frustrated about that, but I still wanted to say that this book, although in no way perfect, was very emotional and it tugged on all of my heart- strings There were moments when I laughed, I cried, I was happy and disappointed, but overall, I was drawn to and emerged in the tale of woe and ultimate success in the lives of our young Vorkosigans! The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. We got to get to know Mark much better, enough for him to make us pity him, sympathies with him, then hate him, then try to understand him, then give him a chance, then suffer for him and finally settle at a state of OK, he is Mark and he will never be like Miles, but he is a very interesting and very insane dude whom we can live with and be interested to see more of We also got to see Miles in a bit of a different light, and not to be left behind, he also did things I was very unhappy with him Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure, but again, at the end of the day, this is Miles and he is amazing just as nuts, impulsive, charming and infuriating as always, just the way we have come to love and care for him as much as we do But my personal treat was the small cameo by wolf-girl who always steals the moment with her unending earnestness and gentle soul, Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure well as the more page time by Cordelia!!!! I loooooove this woman! She is what I want to be when I grow up, which might be already tomorrow, since I am quite grown already. She is smart, gentle, logical, loving, strong and ferocious, Cordelia is a force of nature and I would love to be in the vicinity of her awesomeness, but since that is impossible, Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure as much of her on page is what I consider a treat from the author specially for me: : : She is the reason for Miles and the men in her life to be as they are, the better for knowing and loving her, and I love that the author lets us see this in a very unobtrusive, gentle way. The only issues Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure had were concerning Miles, Quinn and Bell, and I wish we could have gotten a better outcome there, but I trust the author to lead us in the world of her creation and will follow wherever she takes us. But despite all of that, this is a book I know I will Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure for a long, long time, because it did not only leave its mark in my brain, but in my soul as well It is also the first one in the series I do not believe is for everyone, since there are bad things happening and some might have issues with them. I did too, but not in a way to be repelled by the book. I was repelled by the actions of the characters, but they had their role, their purpose. Nothing was there just for gratuitously or for the shock value. As always, the author made us think by putting the characters in extraordinary circumstances and made us think about how we might have handled them in their place I am only glad that I am not anywhere close to Jackson Hall, may it disintegrate to its molecular components!!!! - Mirror Dance (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures) by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. Works in the series have received numerous awards and nominations, including five Hugo award wins including one for Best Series. The point of view characters include Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure Cordelia in Shards of Honor and Barrayar ; Ekaterin in KomarrA Civil Campaignand The Flowers of Vashnoia gay man Ethan of Athosa pair of brothers, one of whom is physically handicapped and the other a clone Miles and Mark Vorkosiganand their cousin Ivan Vorpatriltogether with some minor characters e. The various forms of society and government Bujold presents often reflect contemporary politics. In many novels, there is a contrast between the technology-rich egalitarian Beta Colony or more generally, galactic society and the heroic, militaristic, hierarchical society of Barrayar, where personal relationships must ensure societal continuity. Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of most of Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure series, is the son of a Betan mother and a Barrayaran aristocrat. Humanity has colonized a galaxy in which there are no competing intelligent species. Since then at least years before Falling Free or years before Shards of Honordozens of planets were colonized and have developed divergent cultures. Due to apparent nuclear warfare that has left large areas too radioactive to inhabit, low genetic diversity on Barrayar during the time of isolation, as well as the effects of mutagenic compounds found in native Barrayaran plants, a cultural phobia about mutation developed that leads to a high level of xenophobia. Within the series, exploration and colonization of new planets is still ongoing, most notably on the planet Sergyar. Interstellar travel is achieved by "jumping" from solar system to solar system via spatial anomalies known as wormholes that create tunnels in a five-dimensional space. Typically wormholes are bracketed by space stations, military or commercial, which provide ports for jump travel. Stations may be owned by planetary governments, or by specific commercial organizations, or they may be completely independent of any planetary organization. Barrayar's original wormhole collapsed, a rare event leading to the time of isolation. Barrayar was later re-discovered via a wormhole jump from Komarr. Komarr allows the neighboring Cetagandan empire to use their wormhole to conquer Barrayar, and is later conquered Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure its turn when Barrayar eventually defeats the Cetagandans. The stories feature several planetary systems, each with its own political organization, including government by corporate democracy, rule by criminal corporations, monarchies, empires and direct democracies. In most cases, there is a single government which dominates the entire planet an exception is Jackson's Whole. Both Cetaganda and Barrayar have empires, acquired by conquering other planets via neighboring wormholes. As a tool to simplify the writing process, Bujold devises a standard system of timekeeping universal to all planets regardless of the length of their day and year. Bujold herself has commented that her posited system is neither technologically nor economically feasible, but is rather a convenience for storytelling. Most of the technology in the series is based on 20th-century engineering situations, [ citation needed ] projected into null-g or alternative solar system situations. Biomedical advances such as cloning, artificial wombs named "uterine replicators" and cryochambers to preserve and revive recently deceased people are featured heavily in the series. Two jump pilots with obsolete navigational brain implants and a number of characters created by genetic manipulation are psychologically stranded by the termination of the programs for which they were designed. The series features gravity manipulation, both artificially generated in spaceships, and artificially suppressed in ground transport and elevators. Falling Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure and Diplomatic Immunity explore the relationship between a culture adapted to an environment without gravity and one which depends on gravity. In most societies featured in the series, paper has been mostly replaced by either plastic sheets or electronic devices, and two-dimensional video is replaced by three-dimensional holograms. Most characters use portable computers called "wristconsoles" and personal computers named "comconsoles". Interstellar messages, however, have to be recorded on a physical disc which is transported through wormholes at a high cost, and relayed between wormholes by the ships' communication systems, imposing both time and Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure constraints on interstellar communications. As the series features a military background in several novels, special attention is paid to military technology. Ship-to-ship combat includes plasma rays and attacks based on gravity manipulation, and defensive countermeasures. Personal combat includes the use of combat suits, plasma rays, needlers, and nerve disruptors, which emit rays that destroy nerve tissue. Biological weapons are also mentioned in the form of wide-spectrum toxin bombs and genetically modified microbes that target specific races, and in some cases, specific people. A truth serum"fast-penta", is a widespread tool used in interrogation. Several defenses are devised, such as induced allergies that kill the subject before they can reveal information, genetic engineering to create immunity, or compartmentalization of information on a need-to-know basis. Miles Vorkosigan has an atypical reaction to the drug, which enables him to thwart his enemies on at least one occasion. In Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure Vorkosigan saga, humans live on planets with diverse degrees of habitability, and have developed diverse adaptation strategies to environments Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure are only approximately fit for human life. For example, Komarr is a cold planet with high CO 2 that is going through long-term terraforming to make it habitable, while Beta Colony is a hot, sandy planet where humans must live underground. Barrayar's vegetation is incompatible with Earth's, and often poisonous or allergenic to humans; Barrayans clear native forest and use compost from Earth-descended plants or horse manure to grow new Earth Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure. In spaceships and space stations, people live in closed ecologies in which air and waste are continuously reprocessed. Medical advances are a fundamental part of the saga's worldbuilding. The most ubiquitous are "uterine replicators", devices that allow complete in vitro reproduction, with gene therapy "gene cleaning" to correct for congenital defects. In Ethan of Athosthis also makes possible an all-male society in which eggs are produced by ovaries maintained in a lab. The Cetagandan haut go beyond gene cleaning, deliberately engineering the human genome in an attempt to produce a post-human species CetagandaDiplomatic Immunity. Other advances include genetic manipulation to produce microbes and animals tailored for specific purposes, including decoration, or humans adapted for combat or to live and work in zero gravity. Fertile hermaphrodites have been created in an attempt to surpass Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure roles. Medical prolonging of human life has advanced to achieve natural lifespans of years or more, though Barrayar lags galactic civilization on this. Cloning is featured in the series, prominently in the person of Mark, Miles' clone-brother, Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure in a morally dubious industry on Jackson's Whole that grows clones of wealthy people to transplant their brains from elderly bodies to youthful, healthy ones. Barrayar is an exception to most of these advances due to its long isolation from the rest of humanity. Women carrying their babies to term without uterine replicators are the rule at the beginning of the series, and there is an ingrained fear of mutation in its society. The social challenges posed by medical technology and Miles Vorkosigan's visible deformities are integral to the plot of several of the stories. The time required for wormhole jumps between planetary systems means travel and communication require time and effort which isolates each planet and allows it to develop its own culture, most of them derived to some extent from a culture known historically on Earth. For example, the planet Athos creates a monosexual culture in which men reproduce in vitro without female intervention, Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure is an empire in which hierarchies are based in genetic fitness, Jackson's Whole is a cutthroat criminal planet in which trade and money are law, and Escobar is a moderate planet focused on scientific advancement. The novels do not focus much on several sources of social organization and prejudice on Earth, such as language, skin color, and religion. In general, Nexus inhabitants speak a common language, though they may know other languages or have a planetary accent. On the other hand, the most prominent genotype on Barrayar is olive skin and brown eyes and dark hair. The environment and history of the planets dictate Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure social structures and prejudices. For example, because of the isolation of Barrayar, located with a single wormhole to connect it with the rest of the galaxy, and its people having to defend a broadly habitable planet, Barrayarans both need and can afford a militaristic society. Their genetic isolation has led them to create a patriarchal society to preserve genetic purity. The Betans, on a hostile planet where they must live in domes, rely on industrial export and limit not only childbearing but also every kind of behavior that might be considered "antisocial". From their point of view, Barrayaran society is irrational and backward, while the Barrayarans view them as sexually and politically undisciplined, referring to a "Betan vote" as an obstacle to decision-making. Planets accessible by many wormholes Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure centers of trade and finance, whether benign Komarr, Escobar or malicious Jackson's Whole. Finally, some dwellers in space habitats look down on those who call one planet home as "dirt suckers". In all the books except Ethan of Athos and Falling Freethe protagonists are connected to the planet Barrayar, home of the Vorkosigan clan. For this planet Bujold devised a history which allowed for "swords 'n' spaceships" due to the transition between the Time of Isolation and galactic culture. In the conservative backwoods, some still practice infanticide if signs of mutation are detected. Barrayar is a planet colonized by humans some four hundred years prior to Shards of Honorthe first Vorkosigan novel. Shortly after colonization, the 50, settlers are cut off by a failure of the sole wormhole connecting Barrayar to the rest of humanity. During the following centuries, the "Time of Isolation", the colony regresses socially and technologically, eventually developing a feudal form of government, in which the Emperor of Barrayar is supported by sixty regional counts and other minor aristocrats, identified by the honorific prefix Vor- in their names. The Vor caste is a military one, and Barrayaran culture is highly militaristic and hierarchical. The Counts, however, originate as accountants, with the duty of ensuring that the Emperor's taxes are collected. Because of Barrayar's tradition of direct military action, the Counts also become extremely militaristic. Barrayar is eventually rediscovered via a different wormhole route controlled by the rich merchant planet Komarr. The Komarrans allow the neighboring expansionist Cetagandan Empire to invade Barrayar in return for commercial rights and concessions. Despite a significant technological advantage, the Cetagandans are finally expelled at great cost after many years of occupation and guerrilla warfare, in large part due to the leadership of General Count Piotr Vorkosigan, Miles' paternal grandfather. Due to a massacre initiated by a subordinate, Aral Vorkosigan acquires the sobriquet "Butcher of Komarr. Aral Vorkosigan later meets Cordelia Naismith, an enemy Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure from Beta Colony, at the commencement of another war. Forced to work together to survive on a hostile planet, they fall in love and eventually marry, Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure in the conception of Miles. An attempt to poison Aral Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure his regency for the child Emperor, Gregor Vorbarra, leads to the exposure of Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure pregnant Cordelia to a teratogenic compound, the antidote to the poison. Desperate experimental medical procedures are required to save the unborn baby, and the Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure effects of the antidote threaten to kill Cordelia. Miles is transferred to a uterine replicator to allow medical procedures that would threaten his mother. Miles' physical development is severely affected; in particular, his long bones are short and fragile. As an adult, he is subtly but noticeably misshapen and no taller than a nine-year-old boy. As a result, he has to deal with the deeply ingrained prejudice against mutants on his native world though he is not technically a mutant since the damage is teratogenic. With nearly pathological determination and high intelligence, aided by his supportive parents and their high social rank, he fashions an extraordinary military and civilian career for himself in the Barrayaran Empire. A Warrior's Apprentice comic book was published in France Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventurewhich was the first of a projected series called La Saga Vorkosigan. The title story features Beta Colony, and another story contains a character named Cordelia Naismith, perhaps a distant ancestor of the Vorkosigan character. When beginning her first novel, Shards of Honor, Bujold Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure these elements, but greatly expanded. She followed that up with the second novel with the same setting, The Warrior's Apprenticethen worked on Ethan of Athos. After being rejected by four publishers, The Warrior's Apprentice was accepted by Baen Books, who agreed to a three-book deal to include the two other novels. Shards of Honor and Barrayar concern Miles' parents, Ethan of Athos involves a few minor characters from other Vorkosigan novels, and Falling Free does not involve Miles or any of his Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure, though in some later novels Miles encounters the descendants Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure the characters from Falling Free. While all the books and novellas are currently in print as ebooks, in America they are in print as omnibus editions. The Saga's internal chronology does not match the order in which the books were written. Bujold has stated on her blog that she is generally in favor of reading the books in internal chronological order. It was published in the book of the same name, which is a collection of short stories and essays by Bujold that had been previously unpublished and that she gathered together prior to her appearance at a NESFA convention. It is also the only Vorkosigan Saga story not published or republished by Baen Books. Collected in the omnibus edition Miles, Mutants and Microbes. Captain Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony meets and eventually falls in love with Captain Lord Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar when they are both stranded on an uninhabited planet. After being captured by the Barrayarans and then escaping twice, she returns home a war hero.