A Civil Campaign- Lois McMaster Bujold
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Title: A Civil Campaign
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Read By: Grover Gardner
Copyright: 1999
Audiobook Copyright: 2007
Genre: Science Fiction
Series Name: Miles Vorkosigan
Position in Series: 12
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If you relish costume adventure in an intergalactic society starring
strong, convincing male and female characters, you’ll adore the Vorkosigan
Series. If you haven’t met Miles Vorkosigan, whose brilliance, manic
energy, and unstoppable determination make him a larger-than-life hero
despite his dwarfish stature, pick up Komarr and A Civil Campaign. Read
them, and then go back and catch the previous nine books (10 if you
count Ethan of Athos, which features not Miles but his partner, Ellie
Quinn); or read the series in order, starting with the romance of Miles’s
parents in Shards of Honor.
A Civil Campaign opens where Komarr ends, with Miles determined to court
Ekaterin. Unfortunately, his approach is described as "General Romeo
Vorkosigan, the one-man strike force." By his father. The potential
for comic disaster increases when Miles’s clone brother Mark arrives.
He’s brought a brilliant but scatterbrained scientist who’s created
a bug producing a perfect food: bug butter. They set up a lab in the
basement of Vorkosigan House. Mark has also found a nice Barrayaran
girl–she even likes the bugs–with whom he got together on the sexually
liberated world of Beta. But now Kareen’s living at home. Naturally,
disaster strikes, repeatedly and on all fronts.
Bujold unfolds her comedy of manners while continuing to explore familiar
themes: the difficulties in becoming a strong adult woman in a patriarchy,
the need for trust and honesty in relationships between the sexes, the
difference between appearance and identity, and the impact of advanced
biotechnologies on society. A Civil Campaign is a sure-fire Hugo and
Nebula nominee, likely to add another statue to Bujold’s already full
shelf. It’s charming, touching, and quite funny too. –Nona Vero –This
text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Bujold dedicates her new novel to the Bront?s, Georgette Heyer and Dorothy
Sayers, which gives a pretty good indication of the territory she’s
staked out in this well-done addition (after Komarr) to her popular
Miles Vorkosigan series. Miles, forced by ill heath to give up his military
career and having embarked on a second career as an Imperial Auditor
(a kind of peripatetic judge and ambassador), is madly in love with
the beautiful and brilliant Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Unfortunately, Ekaterin
is the recent widow of a crooked government official whose death Miles
holds himself partially responsible for. Their courtship is made even
more difficult by a series of interrelated events. First, Emperor Gregor
is getting married, and Miles, like everyone else in the government,
is caught up in the complex social and diplomatic whirl surrounding
the impending nuptials. Second, Miles’s disaster-prone clone brother,
Mark, has concocted a scheme to make a fortune marketing "butter bugs,"
unattractive, cockroachlike creatures that secrete a bland tofulike
food product. Worse, Mark has set up his laboratory in Vorkosigan House,
the bugs have gotten loose and Miles’s parents, Lord Aral and Lady Cordelia,
are due home any second. And then there’s the dirty infighting going
on in the Council of Counts over who should inherit two vacant districts,
plus an attempt to frame Miles for murder. Through all these often hilarious
and occasionally dangerous incidents, Miles strives heroically to keep
his eye on the prizeAthe winning of Ekaterin’s hand in marriage. Bujold
successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist
social commentary and her usual superb character development in a sprightly
SF romance that her many fans will find enormously satisfying. (Sept.)
FYI: Bujold has won four Hugos and two Nebulas for books and stories
in the Miles Vorkosigan series.
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