Science Fiction · TenseNewly graduated, Miles Vorkosigan is posted to a winter infantry training base on remote Kyril Island
The Vor Game
A young officer's difficult first posting
Baen Books published the novel in September 1990, and the first edition has 345 pages. It is the sixth full-length novel of the Vorkosigan Saga in publication order. Miles Vorkosigan, newly graduated from the Academy, is assigned to a winter infantry training base on remote Kyril Island. The first chapters appeared in a slightly different form as the novella "The Weatherman" in the February 1990 issue of Analog. Emperor Gregor, Simon Illyan and Aral Vorkosigan appear. It was included in the 1997 omnibus Young Miles.
More about this book
Who
Miles Vorkosigan, Emperor Gregor, Simon Illyan and Aral Vorkosigan.
World
The Vorkosigan Saga, starting on remote Kyril Island.
What makes it different
It is the first Vorkosigan Saga book to win a Hugo. Part of it first appeared as the novella "The Weatherman".
Feel
Brisk and clever.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Vor GameWikipedia