Booklog 46/2022: Lois McMaster Bujold: Borders of Infinity - Vorkosigan #5

[jacey]

This is a re-read via Audible, read by Grover Gardner.

Borders of Infinity is a single book with framing device encompassing three Vorkosigan short stories/novellas: The Mountains of Mourning, Borders of Infinity, and Labyrinth. In the Mountains of Mourning, Miles, then only twenty, must solve the murder of a baby in the superstitious back-country of Vorkisigan Surleau where despite all efforts to stamp out the killing of 'mutie' babies at birth, the old practice still happens. Miles is the man for the job since at four feet six with a twisted spine, he looks like a mutie himself. In Borders of Infinity Miles gets himself incarcertaed in a Cetagandan prison camp in order to rescue one specific person, and ends up rescuing a few thousand. In Labyrinth, Miles and the Dendarii are on a mission to Jackson's Whole to liberate a genetic engineer and his tissue samples which have been stored in the calf muscle of super-soldier, Taura, eight feet tall with fangs.

Comments

[watervole]

Was it 'Flowers of Vashnoi' where Taura finally gets a 'happy for now' ending?

[jacey]

It was Winterfair Gifts where she foilrd a plot against Ekaterin and got horizontally friendly with Armsman Roic.

[watervole]

That's the one!

Thanks. I must go and reread some of my favourites again. So many good Vorkosigan novels...

[jacey]

Yes, I've really enjoyed revisiting them on Audible. Currently listening to Cryoburn.

[watervole]

The last sentence in that book is forever burned on my brain.

And the author is sensible to trust the reader to be familiar enough with her world and not explain laws of inheritance.