Mirror Dance

And I think to frame...

this in context, I think it's kind of interesting to consider that, so this was published after Mirror Dance.

So the order from 1990, the Vor game, which we just talked about, published in 1990, then comes Barrier, which was 91, which we of course have acknowledged was published much later than the book that preceded it, Shards of Honor.

Then in 1994, Mirror Dance, something I pointed out in our Barry R. episode is that that ends with a really beautiful scene of Errol and Cordelia doing the mirror dance together, which is very cool because the next book that she wrote was Mirror Dance, and that establishing that the Barry R. in Mirror Dance is a tradition.

And that is, of course, a very potent metaphor for that novel, which is also one of my favorites top one or two books of this whole series, and I'm very excited for when we get to it.

So she wrote that, and then in 95, she published Setaganda.

And then this was followed by Memory in 96, Camara in 98, and A Civil Campaign in 99.

So at that point, I'm pretty sure I'm not positive, but I believe that pretty much publication and internal chronology start to line up, because Memory comes right after comes after Mirror Dance, then Kamara, Civil Campaign.

You understand the macro politics only through the micro traumas of the individuals caught in the crossfire.

Lewis McMaster Bujold achieved something similar in 1994 with Mirror Dance, which the source highlights as a high point of the Vorka Zegan saga.

That's a great series.

What makes this entry unique is the mechanism of its perspective.