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Loading... Diplomatic Immunityby Lois McMaster Bujold
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Least interesting of Bujold's novels I've read yet. The Miles Vorkosigan series started going down after Mirror Dance - I only liked Civil Campaign because of Mark, and he wasn't in this one. No decent supporting characters at all, actually.It was just basically a science fiction space procedural mystery - not my favourite kind of mystery at all. I like her books for the characters, not the threats to the galaxy. No character development, just Miles being his superheroic ultracompentant self. I don't like characters who are that improbably skilled. (  )krisiti | Jul 1, 2009 |   A fun, sometimes funny, military science fiction. Good character development and, even though it's part of a long-ish series, the story presented in this book is resolved within this book - not always the case in some sci-fi series. crazybatcow | Apr 26, 2009 | Although enjoyable - I liked seeing Miles as an adult married man - this book suffers from Miles not being as sharp as usual. I still can't believe that I worked out the key plot point long, long before Miles did... (  )JudithProctor | Mar 2, 2009 | Miles and Ekaterina are returning from their honeymoon when the Imperial Auditor’s presence is required to figure out a mess on Graf Station in Quaddiespace. Miles’ adventures are turning into mystery/ space opera/ political intrigue as he has to figure out who did what and why and before everything blows up in his face. In this book he has Bel Thorne, a former Dendarii Mercenary, to back him up and Cetagandan replicators and a crazy Cetagandan holding everybody hostage and threatening everyone with a nasty poison that, oh by the way, Miles managed to get himself infected with. But Miles and Ekaterin have twin babies to take out of replicators back on Barrayar. How many more years before the next book? Miles’ new wife Ekaterin says this to him: "If you die out here, I will not be grieved, I will be pissed. You’re the man who used to rescue hostages for a living. You are not allowed to not get out of this one. Are you listening to me, Miles Vorkosigan? Don’t you dare die! I won’t have it!" (  )anyanwubutler | Oct 11, 2008 | The first Miles Vorkosigan book that really showcases him as a proper grown-up, a responsible, married career man. And shocking, Bujold actually manages to sell me on it: Miles has truly changed over the course of the books. Mind you, in some ways it's also a call back to the early books, with an emphasis on forward motion, madcap adventure and getting in over your head; Miles' adventure ends here with a tense spaceship stand-off and a quixotic pilot that parallels the start of his first adventure - while being entirely different in every way. A lot of people aren't fond of this book, compared to the others in the series. It was the first I read, and sold me on it. But it is quite different from any of the others - a consequence, I think, of being grown-up. It also calls back to a lot of characters and plot points from previous books, but I came into it cold with no difficulty at all. ( )melannen | Aug 5, 2008 | 0.051 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0743435338, Hardcover)Fans won't find this surprising in the least, but Miles Vorkosigan--the plucky, short-statured hero of Lois McMaster Bujold's beloved series--is uniquely incapable of having an uneventful honeymoon. Between a racially fueled diplomatic dispute, the appearance of a hermaphroditic old flame, and a bizarre Cetagandan genetic conspiracy, Miles just can't seem to get a minute of peace with his new wife, the lovely and resourceful Ekaterin (whom Miles courted in A Civil Campaign).Miles had hoped to give "hands-on op games" a rest once and for all, but when the Emperor urgently calls on him to resolve a "legal entanglement" in Quaddiespace, diplomacy alone might prove inadequate. (Quaddies, you'll remember, are the no-legged, four-armed free-fallers introduced in Falling Free.) Our newly minted Imperial Auditor almost immediately forgets all about "Baby's First Cell Division" (after the assignment comes in, Ekaterin quickly observes "You know, you keep claiming your job is boring, Miles, but your eyes have gone all bright"), but even Miles feels the heat after his diplomatic attempts devolve into a series of flattering assassination attempts. Vorkosigan (and family now!) is as winning as ever, with Bujold offering up her usual fun mix of space-opera action and droll social commentary in a character-centered plot. And here's a bonus for Milesophiles and Vorkosiga novices alike: a book-by-book timeline detailing what trouble Miles got into and when. --Paul Hughes (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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