The Vor Game

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.

I'm Sam Parrish, and this is Definitely Fiction.

[upbeat music] On this episode, we are continuing our read-through of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga with 1990's The Vor Game.

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And here we are again.

Mm.

So this is something Bujold was just kind of doing at this period, you know.

A few of these other stories also were, like, published in magazines, like sci-fi magazines, and then also published, um, as, as novels, and that totally makes sense, right? When you, when you hear that, you're like, "Oh, yeah, it kind of fits." It feels like a novella that then sets up the actual Vor Game story, which is, like, the minute that Miles embarks on his-

Yeah