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Romance Done Right
May. 8th, 2013 12:58 amSep-Nov 2012
Miles in Love - Lois McMaster Bujold - Baen Books,2008
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I needn't have worried. Even without a galaxy-spanning setting, Bujold can still craft compelling science fiction with something interesting to say. Though it helps that this compendium of novels have as their overriding theme that old reliable standby of the screwball romance. Strange as it may seem given my generally emotionally muted demeanour, I am a sucker for such stories. As long, that is, as the protagonists are equally strong personalities, for example Beatrice and Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing, my favourite Shakespeare.
And the characters here are certainly strong. He, of course, is Miles Vorkosigan, the (sometimes) brilliant but stunted military commander of several previous books. She is Ekaterin (Kat) Vorsoisson, the unhappy wife of a minor official on the icy planet of Komarr, a world conquered by the Vor because of its strategic importance as a gateway to the wormhole nexus that connects the galaxy. They meet when Miles is sent to investigate a space freighter that has crashed into the soletta array that is warming the planet. Was it an accident, or was something more sinister afoot? And could it be connected to the impending nuptials of Emperor Gregor and his Komarran bride Laisa?
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Miles in Love - Lois McMaster Bujold - Baen Books,2008
* * * * *
I needn't have worried. Even without a galaxy-spanning setting, Bujold can still craft compelling science fiction with something interesting to say. Though it helps that this compendium of novels have as their overriding theme that old reliable standby of the screwball romance. Strange as it may seem given my generally emotionally muted demeanour, I am a sucker for such stories. As long, that is, as the protagonists are equally strong personalities, for example Beatrice and Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing, my favourite Shakespeare.
And the characters here are certainly strong. He, of course, is Miles Vorkosigan, the (sometimes) brilliant but stunted military commander of several previous books. She is Ekaterin (Kat) Vorsoisson, the unhappy wife of a minor official on the icy planet of Komarr, a world conquered by the Vor because of its strategic importance as a gateway to the wormhole nexus that connects the galaxy. They meet when Miles is sent to investigate a space freighter that has crashed into the soletta array that is warming the planet. Was it an accident, or was something more sinister afoot? And could it be connected to the impending nuptials of Emperor Gregor and his Komarran bride Laisa?
( Read more... )