Borders of Infinity - Miles Vorkosigan Author:Lois McMaster Bujold Collection of three Vorkosigan adventures. The first and most successful story, The Mountains of Mourning, is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning tale that finds Miles dispatched by his emperor father to investigate an infanticide in a rural and provincially minded region. In Labyrinth, Miles covertly travels to wild Jackson's ... more »Whole as Dendarii Mercenary Admiral Naismith on an undercover mission to extract an important research geneticist who mandates the destruction of his last surviving experimental creature as a condition of his departure. In the title story, Miles infiltrates a Cetagandan prison and performs a memorable poetic dance before women. A dialog between Miles and Simon Illyan, chief of Barrayar's Imperial Security, introduces each story.
This collection of novellas includes tales that take place before The Vor Game and others extending past Brothers in Arms. The variation in tone across the tales is handled exceptionally well, as we see Miles mourn and get a better look at his relationship with Illyan. The stories include Miles's first outing as a detective, in which he's faced with a case of infanticide in the mutant-phobic hill country; his largest rescue mission ever; and the most distressed damsel for whom he ever played the knight.« less