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.

Comments

[bookblather]

Gregor needs so many, many hugs.

I think my favorite part of this book is Tung trying to weasel his way into meeting Admiral Vorkosigan and Miles trying not to chortle his way through politely horrified Barryarian officers.

Also, "oh, it took both hands."

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh, that bit with Tung was amazing.

[extrapenguin]

I've come across a few fics that have Gregor try to come to grips with the sexual trauma left behind by Cavilo, though it's not all that frequent. (I admit that the topic might've been Done To Death in the LJ fic era, but I wasn't around for that bit.)

Actually, now I'd be kind of interested in seeing how Gregor's Serg-related paranoias and Cavilo-inflicted traumas interact. Did Cavilo enjoy it rough, or perhaps spot a weak spot and then sink in her prongs?

[cahn]

ahahaha. I didn't get the "took both hands" comment the first time I read it (what can I say, I was really sheltered!) but this time I laughed a lot.