- Hardcover: 392 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (March 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671722107
- ISBN-13: 978-0671722104
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #539,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Honor and his sense of self place the fetally damaged, dwarf-like and brilliant Miles Vorkosigan in grave danger as he attempts to save his disturbed, younger clone Mark from the consequences of folly in this intricate and rousing new installment of the Vorkosigan adventures (after Barrayar ), the series' first appearance in trade hardcover. Passing himself off as Admiral Miles Naismith, Miles's secret identity, Mark commandeers one of the Dendarii Free Mercenary vessels to liberate clones being raised as brain-transplant hosts on the outlaw planet Jackson's Whole. When the plan goes awry, Miles is killed. He is preserved for resuscitation, however, in a cryo-chamber, which disappears in the confusion of evacuation. As the Dendarii search feverishly for their leader, the terrified Mark is sent to Barrayar to Miles's parents, Count Aral and Countess Cordelia Vorkosigan. The couple welcome him as a son and begin his training as their heir in case Miles is never found. The competitive and confused Mark, who had been created as a tool to assassinate his father and was brutalized by a madman in his youth, begins to find himself. His (and Miles's) penetrating intelligence flowers, and he plans a return to Jackson's Whole to find Miles and redeem himself. Hugo award-winner Bujold creates a tapestry of variegated human societies dispersed throughout a colorful galaxy. She peoples it with introspective but genuine heroes who seize the reader's imagination and intellect.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Bujold, winner of five major sf awards, may well garner a sixth with this, her first hardcover original. It features the deformed and undersized heir to the strongman of Barrayar, Miles Vorkosigan, who doubles as Admiral Naismith, leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries--and is secretly on the payroll of Barrayaran Imperial Intelligence. The tale begins with Miles' cloned sibling Mark masquerading as Miles in order to take a Dendarii ship to that free enterprise plague spot, Jackson's Whole, on an unauthorized mission to clean out the clone creches where he was raised. The mission goes awry, Miles comes to Mark's rescue, the rescue goes even more wrong, and by page 100, Miles' body, in cryogenic suspension after receiving mortal wounds, has been shoved into the equivalent of a Federal Express drop and completely lost! The remaining pages complete as good a story as ever was offered as science fiction, with Bujold's carefully crafted prose, logical working out of even minor plot points, and inimitable wit all very much in evidence. Deserves the highest recommendation and a hoard of eager readers. Roland Green
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Read her books, Jun 14 1997
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This review is from: Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure (Hardcover)
Mirror Dance is a touching, gripping, and hair-raising book on several levels. A major character is killed and then goes missing and the hunt is up. But the strengths of this book are in the relationships among the characters and how both the relationships and the characters themselves change. I was in such a sweat to know whther he lives or dies that I actually read the end about halfway through. Bujold makes you care for her characters as if they were your friends.I bought 2 of Bujold's books because they were Hugo winners. I have since read and reread everything she has written. If you have not read any of her work, I envy you, as you get to experience Miles' universe for the first time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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It doesn't get any better than this!, Jun 2 1997
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure (Hardcover)
Bujold's series of novels about Miles Naismith Vorkosigan (one of SF's all-time best characters) are some of the best space-operas ever written. And Mirror Dance may well be her best yet. If you haven't read the others, start with Shards of Honor and then Barrayar (which are about his parents, and both quite good), then the Warrior's Apprentice, The Borders of Infinity, The Vor Game, Cetaganda, and Brothers in Arms (all very good). Of course, if you just can't wait, can't find them, or can't afford them, Mirror Dance is still outstanding on its own, but it's even better if you've read all the pre-quels.(Cetaganda was written after Mirror Dance, but takes place earlier in Miles's life.) Another sequel, Memory, is in the works (a 3-chapter teaser is included in Cetaganda) and looks to take up pretty much where Mirror Dance Leaves off
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Mirror dance: Am I you?, July 18 1996
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mirror Dance: A Vorkosigan Adventure (Hardcover)
Miles is dead, lost, presumed...
Lost.
Mark is taken to Barrayar and discovers that he now is
Lord Mark Vorkosigan. But he caused Miles' death, and
now there's only one thing left to do: Mark has to return to Jackson's whole and find his brother,
and maybe himself.
But they both are wanted by the Great Houses, for different
reasons.
And of course nothing is as simple as it should be...
Vorkosigan adventure follows, much and often, and maybe,
just maybe someone is found.
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