The Vorkosigan Saga #4
Baen
September 1990
On Sale: January 13, 2013
Featuring: Miles Vorkosigan
342 pages ISBN: 0671720147 EAN: 9780671720148 Kindle: B005O2WQ60 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Together, they can get into a lot of trouble. Trouble only the combined forces of the Free Dendarii Mercenaries can get them out of. At least, that's what they're hoping... In this latest adventure with the galaxy's craftiest mercenary leader Miles, starts out by so shaking up the High Command on his home planet of Barrayar that he is sent to the other side of the galaxy - where who should he run into but his old pals the Free Dendarii Mercenaries. And a good thing too, because it turns out that Miles' childhood chum, that's Emperor Gregor to you, has been the victim of foul play, and only Miles - with a little Dendarii muscle - can save him. This is very important to Miles; because if Gregor dies, the only person who could become the new emperor is Miles himself - and that he regards as a fate worse than death
As it should be, all the words spoken by the narrator remain on the local paper fields and rivers. They are formed into really literary (the writer, after all!) Sentences and phrases: "The sky, like ink, was filled with clouds," "In the tomb was very beautiful - the dignity emanating from sadness," and so on. But periodically, among all this, voices break out from the real, not the book world, and on the fields there are other words: "What's going on? Why do not you answer? I've tried so hard to get here, but now, I think he's drowning me ... " (Anna May 10:42am May 20, 2018)
As a result, the fairy tale and reality go side by side, we learn something new about the writer herself and understand that the key events in the game (that is, in the story) are an allegory of the important stages of her life: studies, moving to the city, personal relationships. For example, the water temple here symbolizes the years of schooling in college. All this at the same time reminds something of Bastion (the narrator was there too), and Braid , where the fairytale story about the rescue of the princess also became just an excuse to talk about life, about marriage, the crisis of middle age, alcoholism ... (Anna May 10:43am May 20, 2018)
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