Vorkosigan Readthrough: Mountains of Mourning

[extrapenguin]

• "Well, old man," he whispered, then shouted: "ARE YOU SATISFIED YET?" is a pretty good summation of Miles' life


• And so Admiral Aral's life took General Piotr's like an overpowering hand of cards, and where did that leave Ensign Miles? Holding two deuces and the joker. He must surely either concede or start bluffing like crazy…, too


• There were 50 000 Firsters. I wonder how good a diverse population that would make? Is that enough that most of the birth defects are due to radiation, rather than from bad recessives showing up due to inbreeding?


• How long was the Time of Isolation, anyway?


• What's an "aura detector" that Miles referred to – some sort of infrared recording thing?

Next up, The Vor Game, on the 7th of August (Sunday), with a reminder on the preceding Wednesday.