pedanther

The latest Vorkosigan I've read is "Diplomatic Immunity" -- and that only because I got the omnibus "Miles, Mutants and Microbes" as an Amazon voucher reward for doing a lengthy fan-fiction survey :-)

I'd got the idea somehow from the author's notes to that volume that she'd brought Miles's career to an end at that point, having promoted him to an awkwardly high level that made personal involvement increasingly implausible: evidently not!

The local library gave up stocking her books about twenty years ago, and I don't normally buy new, let alone order online (I had to order "Shards of Honor" from America via my local bookshop, back in the days before Amazon shopping even existed -- that shop no longer sells books, let alone does international orders). So I see them only very sporadically. I read "A Civil Campaign" years before I finally saw "Komarr", and thus was very thoroughly spoiled for the latter. (As a result, my gut reaction was sympathy for the unfortunate Tien, who was so blatantly being set up to fail by the author in order to enable her desired romance :-p)

Normally I would worry about reading the Chalion series out of order, but in this case I think I'm unlikely ever to see any of the other novels in the series anyway, or not for a very long time...