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Lois McMaster Bujold | 608 pages | 07 Sep 1999 | Baen Books | 9780671578282 | English | Riverdale, United States Cordelia's Honor | Vorkosigan Wiki | Fandom

Cordelia's Honor, p. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. This is sf fully equipped with brains, humor, and heart. Cordelia is the most competent female protagonist I can remember in one of the most enjoyable books. A phenomenal success. Bujold's Barrayar series has it all. Her best book yet. On the high ridges the fog showed brighter as the morning sun began to warm and lift the moisture, although in Cordelias Honor ravine Cordelias Honor cool, soundless dimness still counterfeited a pre-dawn twilight. Commander Cordelia Naismith glanced at her team botanist and adjusted the straps of her biological collecting equipment a bit more comfortably before continuing her breathless climb. 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This edition includes an author's afterword, and a chronology of Cordelias Honor events in the Vorkosigan Saga series. Cover art by Gary Ruddell. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published September 7th by Cordelias Honor first published November More Details Original Title. Other Editions 7. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Cordelia's Honorplease sign up. Is this, or will this be, available as ebook Cordelias Honor Because I couldn't find it See 1 question about Cordelia's Honor…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Cordelia's Honor Vorkosigan Omnibus, 1. Dec 27, Conor rated it really liked it Shelves: sci-fi Cordelias Honor, mcmaster-bujold. Shards of Honour - 3. The main characters were likeable and interesting especially the gradual reveal of Vorkosigan's past and the plot was fast-paced, filled with a series of exciting adventures. The world-building was solid but nowhere near as ambitious, intriguing and memorable as the first book in the other sci-fi series I have experience with Hyperion. The secondary characters were for the most part also not particularly remarkable w Shards of Honour - 3. The secondary characters were for the most part also not particularly remarkable with the exception of the menacing and tormented Sergeant Bothari. I'm definitely interested to see Cordelias Honor this series goes from here, especially in how the weird publication vs. Aftermaths - 4. With the setting of Cordelias Honor characters aboard a small space-ship on a mission to recover the bodies of those killed in a recent war the tone was suitably subdued and introspective. Overall I found this to be a somewhat creepy but deeply poignant story. Barrayar- 4 stars Jumping around a bit in reading book 7 after book 1 in this series but it worked pretty well. This book started out brilliantly with some understated well as understated as assassination Cordelias Honor and high risk experimental surgeries can be family turmoil, politics and character development taking center stage. While it wasn't particularly Cordelias Honor Bujold's masterful writing of interesting, nuanced characters kept me engaged. With the introduction of a much larger and more interesting supporting cast than in the first book it's become obvious that writing characters is Bujold's greatest strength: her world-building is pretty shallow and the plots are for the most part straightforward and over reliant on somewhat cliched adventures but Bujold has now written Cordelias Honor impressive cast of colourful, nuanced characters. Especially Cordelias Honor in this book were Droushnakovi the female bodyguard who defies the expectations of a Cordelias Honor society where women aren't supposed to have anything to do with war, Princess Kareen Cordelias Honor was convincingly written as a woman who had been forced into a series of horrific and difficult situations while struggling to survive and protect her young son, Count Piotr a decorated old officer whose old-fashioned values bring him into conflict with the main character and especially Sergeant Bothari who was a complex and compelling character in the last book and becomes even more Cordelias Honor here as we learn more about his background and motivations. However about half-way through the book the focus turned into an isolated trek through the countryside that just seemed to drag on and on. And on. By the time the plot returned to the important points and characters I had grown to care about I was struggling to maintain my attention. Fortunately the conclusion was strong: Cordelias Honor action and some really cool moments where we learned more about certain characters and their motivations insights into Sergeant Bothari and how his messed up childhood led to the development of the demons that have plagued him throughout the series were especially compelling. Cordelias Honor this was a good continuation to the series that has left me psyched to check out the rest of the series, especially as these first 2 books often felt like a prologue to the "really start" of Cordelias Honor series with the appearance of Miles in book 2. View 2 comments. Dec 03, Althea Ann rated it really liked it. This is an omnibus edition of 'Shards of Honor' and 'Barrayar. It's always odd to go back Cordelias Honor read an early book Cordelias Honor characters who were later fleshed out a great deal more. To be frank, this book does not Cordelias Honor live up to many of the later entries into the saga - but then, how could it, really? The world, and the people in it, have g This is an omnibus edition of 'Shards of Honor' and 'Barrayar. The world, and the people in it, have grown in the three decades since this book was written. None of this is to say this isn't a good book. It is. Non-combatant Betan scientist Captain Cordelia Naismith and her exploration team are ambushed and attacked by a group of militaristic Barrayaran soldiers. Next thing she knows, her spaceship must flee, leaving her behind. Also marooned on Cordelias Honor planet is the Barrayaran commander Aral Vorkosigan, betrayed by his own men. Cooperation may be the only way that either of them can stay alive Cordelias Honor and Cordelias Honor only Cordelias Honor that Cordelia can keep a severely injured member of her crew alive, Cordelias Honor well. Forced into proximity, the two of them may learn that although they come from wildly disparate cultures, as individuals they may have more Cordelias Honor common than they would have guessed. That's just the beginning of the story, and it progresses with plenty of action, but also with a very realistic, human focus on Cordelias Honor, values, and decision-making. At the end of the book, 'Aftermaths,' a separate short story which was actually written and published before the rest Cordelias Honor the book, goes even farther with that theme. It gives us a look at an aspect of space battles that action-packed stories of glory usually skip - the civil servants employed to collect the corpses floating in space, working an unpleasant but necessary job. It's Cordelias Honor powerful and heartwrenching tale. The chronological sequel to 'Shards of Honor,' Cordelias Honor follows Cordelias Honor Naismith as she defects from Beta, in order to make her way to Barrayar and find her former captor Cordelias Honor Vorkosigan - a man she has come to love and respect. It's not incomprehensible that her Betan Cordelias Honor assume that she must be suffering from something like Cordelias Honor syndrome, or some more insidious mental conditioning. The suspicion cast on her means that even though the war between Beta and Barrayar is technically over, Cordelia must leave the familiar comforts of home behind Cordelias Honor give herself fully to her new life on primitive, violent, militaristic Barrayar. Nearly immediately she finds herself plunged into the dizzying complexity of the upper levels of Barrayaran politics, as Aral discovers that the peaceful retirement he'd been planning is not in the cards for him. And that's not the only sudden change: Cordelia is pregnant. If you've read later books in this series, a great deal of this book is a lot of tension waiting for certain events that you've already read about, to happen. It's intentional on the author's part - this book Cordelias Honor her backtracking and filling in details about events that have already been Cordelias Honor to in other books. I think it would be an equally enjoyable, although different, experience to read it without already having been introduced to Miles and knowing the difficulties and circumstances surrounding his birth. Jan 06, Wanda rated it really liked it Shelves: female-authorsread- inspeculative-fictionreading-projectnew-books. Actual rating: 4. It is hard for me to believe, but although they are two halves of the same story, there was about 10 years between their original publication dates. I am really glad to have read them together. I really enjoyed Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan as a main character. She was practical, Cordelias Honor, smart, and sensible. And despite all of that, she fell in love with a guy on th Actual rating: 4. And despite all of that, she fell in love with a guy on the wrong side of a war. This was kind Cordelias Honor an anti-fairy tale romance. Cordelia Cordelias Honor Aral are mature people, not impulsive somethings. They talk about the things that are bothering them and they count on one another for support. In short, they have a real relationship. Cordelia is from a rather Gene-Roddenberry-esque culture, that of the Beta Colony. Decisions are made rationally, government is democratic, Cordelias Honor is valued, sexual preferences are publically acknowledged, and frank discussions are seen as normal.