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Mirror Dance: a Vorkosigan Adventure Free FREE MIRROR DANCE: A VORKOSIGAN ADVENTURE PDF Lois McMaster Bujold | 592 pages | 31 Mar 1995 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9780671876463 | English | New York, United States Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga) by Lois McMaster Bujold, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. This item may be a floor model or store return that has been used. See details for description of any imperfections. Skip to main content. About this product. Stock photo. Pre-owned: Lowest price The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously. Mirror Dance A Vorkosigan adventure. Author:Bujold, Lois McMaster. Each month we recycle over 2. All of our paper waste is recycled and turned into corrugated cardboard. See all 2 Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure listings. Buy It Now. Add to cart. About this product Product Information Miles is in danger from his clone Mark. Mark travels to the outlaw planet Jackson's Whole, intending to Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure the clones there who are being bred as brain-transplant hosts. Miles sets out in pursuit. Additional Product Features Country of Publication. Show more Show less. Pre-owned Pre- owned. No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Best Selling in Fiction Books See all. Dune by Frank Herbert Paperback, 4. Animal Farm by George Orwell Paperback, 4. Martin Multiple-item retail product, 4. Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell Paperback, 4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Paperback, 4. Save on Fiction Books Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. You may also like. Dance Paperback Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure. Dance Paperback Illustrated Books. Dance Personalised Paperback Books. Paperback Textbooks. This item doesn't belong on this page. Mirror Dance | Vorkosigan Wiki | Fandom 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.
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