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SUMMARY:The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
DESCRIPTION:It isn't easy\, being Vor. Being a Vor lord on the war-torn pla
 net Barrayar wasn't easy. Being an officer in Barrayar's military wasn't e
 asy. And being the leader of a force of spaceborne mercenaries while maint
 aining a secret identity wasn't easy in fact it should have been impossibl
 e\, to say nothing of being a capital offense on Barrayar. Not that imposs
 ibility or great danger would slow down young Miles Vorkosigan much.\n\nWa
 shed out of the Barrayaran Military Academy for being overly fragile (he h
 ad been biochemically damaged during an assassination attempt while still 
 in his mother's womb)\, Miles' natural (if unorthodox) leadership qualitie
 s quickly led to his off-handedly acquiring a fleet of nineteen ships and 
 three thousand troops\, all unswervingly loyal to him or at least to his a
 lter ego\, Admiral Naismith. In short order\, he foiled a plot against his
  father\, returned to and graduated from the academy\, solved a murder amo
 ng his people\, joined a mutiny against a deranged superior officer\, thwa
 rted an interstellar invasion\, and rescued the Barrayaran Emperor. Then t
 hings get interesting...\n\nLois McMaster Bujold's Website can be found he
 re: http://www.dendarii.com\n\nThe Vor Game is included in the collection 
 Young Miles which also includes the first two Miles Vorkosigan books: The 
 Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game plus the double Hugo and Nebula awar
 d winning Novella The Mountains of Mourning\, which acts as a prequel to T
 he Vor Game.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Vor Game won the 1991 Hugo award for best no
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