Miles Errant

This is an omnibus of "The Borders of Infinity", "Brothers in Arms", and "Mirror Dance". All feature Miles Vorkosigan after he's gotten over the worst of adolescence, finding his way to being an adult. "Borders" is a long short story, or novella, in which Miles is dropped into hell and does the impossible. Pretty straightforward caper/heroism. In the two novels, his clone brother Mark appears, and is sorted out. I rather like Mark, though Bujold goes rather over the line into easy-peasy psychological mumbo jumbo to have him handle some horrors. Mikes dies, is cryogenically preserved and revived, and finds this quite sobering.[return][return]Of course, I'm just fine with all the previous tidy psychological sleight-of-hand, not to mention faster than light travel.