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Diplomatic Immunity Diplomatic Immunity
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 2009
   A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor's youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back...
 
The Sharing Knife Volume Two: Legacy The Sharing Knife Volume Two: Legacy
Автор: Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 2011
   Ill-chance brought young Fawn Bluefield together with Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, but it was love and loyalty that joined their fates. While their unorthodox marriage has been grudgingly accepted by the clever farm girl's people, Dag's Lakewalker kin are less tolerant, greeting their union with derision, suspicion, and prejudice.
 
Memory Memory
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1997 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 2009
   Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that's what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already. Thanks to his quick thinking staff and the specialist who revived him, his first death won't be his last. But his next one might be, a realization he finds profoundly unsettling. Even after he returns to military duty, his late death seems to be having a greater effect than he's willing to admit. Unfortunately, his weakness reveals itself to the world at large at just the wrong time and in just the wrong way, and Miles is summoned home to face Barrayaran security chief Simon Illyan. But when things begin to go subtly wrong in Imperial Security itself, «Who shall guard the guardians?» becomes a more-than-rhetorical question, with a potentially lethal answer. Things look bad, but Miles' worst nightmares about Simon Illyan don't compare to Illyan's worst nightmares — or are they memories?
 
Miles in Love (Omnibus) Miles in Love (Omnibus)
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 880 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 2010
   Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume: «Komarr»— Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shatteredby a ship hurtling off course, and Miles Vorkossigan has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage. Miles uncovers a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever — and discovers an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own. «A Civil Campaign»— On Komarr, Miles met the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who has no intention of getting married after the heartbreak and betrayal of her first experience. But Miles has a cunning plan to change her mind. Unfortunately his clone-brother Mark and his cousin Ivan have cunning plans of their own, and the three-way collision of cunning plans threatens to undo Miles’s brilliant romantic strategy. «Winterfair Gifts» — Miles and Ekaterin make elaborate preparations for their wedding. But Miles has an enemy who is plotting to turn the romantic ceremony into a festival of death.
 
The Sharing Knife Volume One: Beguilement The Sharing Knife Volume One: Beguilement
Автор: Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 372 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 2009
   Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family’s farm. But en route to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, nomadic soldier–sorcerers from the northern woodlands. Feared necromancers armed with mysterious knives made of human bone, they wage a secret, ongoing war against the scourge of the «malices», immortal entities that draw the life out of their victims, enslaving human and animal alike. It is Dag—a Lakewalker patroller weighed down by past sorrows and onerous present responsibilities—who must come to Fawn’s aid when she is taken captive by a malice. They prevail at a devastating cost—unexpectedly binding their fates as they embark upon a remarkable journey into danger and delight, prejudice and partnership... and perhaps even love.
 
The Sharing Knife Volume Three: Passage The Sharing Knife Volume Three: Passage
Автор: Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 2011
   Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers with their passionate hearts strong and united. The bigotry of blood kin, however, cannot be easily overcome. Leaving behind all that they have ever known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples—but their passage will not be ventured alone. New companions join them on their road: Fawn's brother, Whit, escaping a hopeless future on the family farm; a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers fleeing the catastrophic consequences of an honest mistake; a young flatboat captain searching for her vanished father and fiancé; a shrewd backwoods hunter; and a farmer boy unintentionally beguiled by Dag's growing magery. On an eventful journey to where great rivers join, the ill-assorted crew will be sorely tested and tempered, as they encounter a new world of hazards both human and uncanny.
 
The Curse of Chalion The Curse of Chalion
Автор: Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 2009
   A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is as assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. but it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion and all who stand in their circle. And only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge — an act that will mark the loyal, damaged servant as a tool of the miraculous ... and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death.
 
Brothers in Arms Brothers in Arms
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 338 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 2013
   If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Vorkosigan (alias Admiral Naismith) decided bitterly, the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But his enemies were plotting a more deadly fall. For some unexplained reason the Dendarii payroll is missing and the orders from the Barrayaran Imperial Command are being delayed by Miles's superior, Captain Galeni. What connects the impeccable insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates on Earth anyway? But the most deadly question of all before Miles is more personal: are Miles's two identities, Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan of Barrayar, splitting apart along the lines of his divided loyalties? And who is trying to assassinate which version of him? When Miles unravels the answers, then the complications really «begin.»
 
Komarr Komarr
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2002 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 2009
   Komarr could be a garden — with a thousand more years work. Or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest Imperial Auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why.
 
Miles Errant Miles Errant
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2002 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 2009
   Whether he's rescuing prisoners, keeping his enemies from replacing him with a clone, or coming back from his own dysfunctional death, Miles gets the job done. Of course, it may not be «quite» the job his superiors wanted done.
 
Miles, Mutants and Microbes Miles, Mutants and Microbes
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 826 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 2011
   »Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume»: «Falling Free» — The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where children had been bio-engineered to have four arms (and no legs) to function in zero gravity. Now that they're no longer needed, a heartless mega corporation is getting rid of them before they eat into the profit margin. Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies — now he had to teach them to be free. Labyrinth — When Miles Vorkosigan is captured while on a secret mission to a lawless world, his only hope of escape is an unlikely pair of allies: a quaddie and a teenage werewolf. «Diplomatic Immunity» — Miles Vorkosigan and his wife were heading home for the births of their first children, but a major diplomatic disaster is looming at Graf Station, colonized by the descendants of the original quaddies, and duty calls. Unfortunately, diplomatic immunity doesn't carry over to immunity from a very nasty biological weapon. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back...
 
A Civil Campaign A Civil Campaign
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2000 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 2009
   Miles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan also has a problem: his love has just become unrequited again. But he has a cunning plan... Lord Ivan Vorpatril has a problem: unrequited love in general. But he too has a cunning plan... If no battle plan survives first contact with the enymy, just imagine what all Miles' friends and relatives can do to his romantic strategy!
 
The Vorkosigan Companion The Vorkosigan Companion
Автор: Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 2013
   Lois McMaster Bujold's best-selling Vorkosigan series is a publishing phenomenon, winning record-breaking sales, critical praise, four Hugo Awards and a Nebula award. And the thousands of devotees of the series now have a book that will be a goldmine of information, background details, and little-known facts about the Vorkosigan saga. Included are an all-new interview with Bujold as well as essays by her on crafting the Vorkosigan universe, articles on the biology, technology and sociology of the planet Barrayar, appreciations of the individual novels by experts, maps, a complete timeline of the series, and more. Readers can't get enough of the Vorkosigan series and they'll jump at the chance to read this story behind the stories. Includes an excerpt from the new Miles Vorkosigan novel!
 

 

 

 
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