The Vor Game (Miles Vorkosigan #2)

Synopsis

Miles Naismith Vorkosigan was not a mutant, though he was often mistaken for one. His home, Barrayar, was a militant world shaped by a bitter history and political strife. Years earlier, an assassin had chosen poison gas for an attack on Aral Vorkosigan, former Regent of the Barrayaran Empire -- now Prime Minister -- and the pregnant Lady Cordelia.

They survived; unborn Miles was the terrorist's only real victim. Cursed with brittle bones that neither grew nor healed properly, a dwarf-like body and a face prematurely lined with the agony of too many corrective surgeries--and too many people who could not accept his difference -- Miles refused to hide behind his Vor rank. With a brilliant mind, courage honed by a desire for adventure, and an ever-ready sense of the absurd, he carved out his own place in the galactic scheme...

It was just after his hard-won graduation from the Imperial Academy and before he began active duty that Miles met the hill woman. Distraught, she claimed her husband had murdered their baby daughter, who'd been born (continued on back flap) (continued from front flap) defective -- an old back-country practice for culling mutants, now illegal but impossible to stamp out. The woman demanded Lord Vorkosigan's justice, and she was no less surprised than Miles himself when he was appointed his father's Voice in the matter. But he did indeed exact justice -- for the sake of a child whose needless death would haunt him all his days...

Hugo Award winner.

Copyright:

1990

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

578 Pages

Publisher:

N/A

Date of Addition:

07/31/07

Copyrighted By:

Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Disability-Related, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Proofread By:

Snehali (Holly) Marimuthu

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