Vorkosigan Readthrough: The Vor Game

[extrapenguin]

So, here we are, book number 4.

• The Ensigns are in random order, apparently, not any sort of alphabetic. Unless the Barrayaran Cyrillic alphabetical order is way different to modern?


• Did Zubachik end up as Gregor's guard?


• The common job is from 7 to 5, as per Ivan


• Miles is at this point 4'9 (145cm)


• "for the mutants that may come after me" is expressed this early? I only recall it coming from an older Miles after Memory


• Camp Permafrost is not quite northerly enough for midnight sun or tundra


• What is this 3rd Cetagandan War anyway – "peculiar" victory? Was Major Duvallier's execution for espionage related?


• Miles handles Olney and Pattas rather well :D


• The Komarran conquest was really recent as of Shards of Honor; I'd have expected it to be a few years earlier


• Gregor: thin, middle height (which is... how tall on Barrayar? 175cm? 180cm?), dark hair, hazel eyes, "skinny neurasthenic git"


• Jacksonian law: complete shitshow


• Someone give Gregor a hug. "Greg Bleakman"?


• So, how large was the shitshow on Komarr after Gregor evaporates, no note, no trace, from a fully guarded room?


• Miles Vorkosigan, Quality Control Inspector is a thing that a) should exist and b) I want all the fic of


• "Space them" is Oser's most inspired decision, as is the order to silence Miles, should he speak


• Should all hell break loose, the military would go with Count Vorinnis against the anti-centralization liberals, the French-speakers would go with Vorville, the Russian-speakers with Vortugalov, the far-right blow-up-the-wormhole extremists would field Count Vortrifani against the anti-Vor pro-galactics who want a written constitution... I think I want this fic.


• All the Nexus also calls Miles a mutant; it's not just Barrayar


• Miles' interesting staff meeting, with two people tied to their chairs and gagged. Was either of them the Peregrine's captain? Who was the other?


• "Non-communications officer" is gold. As is the whole rest of what Miles said to Cavilo.


• Gregor <3

Next: Cetaganda, discussion on Sunday 28.8., with a reminder the prior week.