Reading is good, a mix of science fiction and comedy

Reading is good, a mix of science fiction and comedy

Recently read the book “The Warrior's Apprentice” by Lois McMaster Bujold.

I see is the second of a serial of books, but the first about its main character, “Miles Vorkorsigan”.

Located in a monarchy planet in a future filled with spaceships the story goes about Miles wanting to enter the Military, being a Vorkorsigan, the family of all famous Military Heroes. But Miles has a disability, so he ends failing the physical exam by getting his legs broken and unable to take the theory exam is rejected. So he then goes on a trip to the planet of his grandmother on his mother side, along with his bodyguard Bothari, and Bothari’s daughter Elena.

Once on that planet he gets involved with 3 people, a crazy pilot, a military fugitive, and a smuggler, and ends up travelling to a war zone between two planets. Being detained for a search contraband by the mercenaries hired by one of the planets (and Miles actually smuggling things for the other planet) he has to find a way to avoid being arrested and probably killed. Using imagination and a really weird strategy he manages to not only go safe, but with time to become Admiral Naismith from an imaginary mercenary organization, that grows powerful enough to become the balancing force in the local war, just before having to return to his home planet.

A plot of science fiction and space battles that is good on itself, but that becomes a totally genius comedy thanks to the main character Miles Vorkorsigan, and the strategies he uses, that go jumping in between the ridiculous and unbelievable, to the side on efficiency of a mastery of strategy. And is thank to that, the personality and actions of Miles and friend, that what makes this work wonderful appears, a comedy that will make you laugh like mad.

Definitively I need to look for the remaining books of the series, unfortunately in spanish apparently only another one was published in Mexico, so more than probably will need to go look for English language versions.


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Jessica