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Brothers in Arms
by Lois McMaster Bujold
Just when you think Mile Vorkosigan's world couldn't get any more chaotically disordered... the universe and Bujold herself strive here to prove you wrong. The novella just before this chronologically sets the scene for a really hacked off Cetagandan fleet after Admiral Naismith had something little to do with freeing a whole lot of their prisoners of war and starting a resistance movement that the Cetagandans hadn't seen coming. They're just a little bit miffed. Like miffed enough to chase their prey across several wormholes, first with the big guns and then with assassins. Miles needs a break. The Dendari need a break. Hell, the equipment needs a break.
But Miles' time on Earth isn't quite as well, relaxing as he might have thought it could have been, particularly when he realises that Miles Vorkosigan and Miles Naismith are now essentially stuck on the same planet... and it's not as if either are inconspicuous. Coupled with the Dendar's desperate need for re-financing and his immediate superior in the Barrayian being a political nightmare for him to work with by the pure dint of being a Komarran... things don't start simple and they certainly don't end that way. For chaos follows Miles just as surely as well... goblins follow galleons. And this time he's in for the ride of his life.
Introducing several interesting new characters - a few of which become seminal characters in the novels to come, this novel perhaps is the beginning of the first change. Nothing drastic. Miles is still Miles, chaos still dogs his footsteps and he's still a hyperactive little maniac holding a huge secret structure together by his word and his breath... but this is where the beginnings of something new arise. I wouldn't call it maturity, I wouldn't even call it slowing down, but at closer to thirty than he is to twenty, something is beginning to develop here beyond his adolescent dreams and the burdens of being The Great Man's Son.
But Miles' time on Earth isn't quite as well, relaxing as he might have thought it could have been, particularly when he realises that Miles Vorkosigan and Miles Naismith are now essentially stuck on the same planet... and it's not as if either are inconspicuous. Coupled with the Dendar's desperate need for re-financing and his immediate superior in the Barrayian being a political nightmare for him to work with by the pure dint of being a Komarran... things don't start simple and they certainly don't end that way. For chaos follows Miles just as surely as well... goblins follow galleons. And this time he's in for the ride of his life.
Introducing several interesting new characters - a few of which become seminal characters in the novels to come, this novel perhaps is the beginning of the first change. Nothing drastic. Miles is still Miles, chaos still dogs his footsteps and he's still a hyperactive little maniac holding a huge secret structure together by his word and his breath... but this is where the beginnings of something new arise. I wouldn't call it maturity, I wouldn't even call it slowing down, but at closer to thirty than he is to twenty, something is beginning to develop here beyond his adolescent dreams and the burdens of being The Great Man's Son.