KOMARR:A MILES VORKOSIGAN ADVENTURE

Book ID/图书代码： 13005504B09687

English Summary/英文概要： Accident or Treachery? Komarr could be a garden-with a thousand more years work. or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest Imperial Auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why. The choice is not a popular one on Komarr, where a betrayal a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. In the political and physical claustrophobia of the domed cities, are the Komarrans surrounding Miles loyal subjects, potential hostages, innocent victims, or rebels bidding for revenge? Lies within lies, treachery within treachery-Miles is caught in a race against time to stop a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever. His burning hope lies in an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 迈尔斯前往贝拉亚帝国的新领地科玛调查太阳能镜组损毁事件，结识了当地行政官弗•索伊森的妻子埃卡特琳。随着调查的深入，迈尔斯发现造地工程部负责人索德哈将大量资金挪作他用，而埃卡特琳也得知自己的丈夫与索德哈沆瀣一气，涉嫌贪污。为了挽救自己的婚姻，弗•索伊森决定揭发索德哈的罪行，但却意外身亡。(RH)

Awards/获奖情况："Bujold retains the wit, intelligence, action, and great character development that have made the Miles Vorkosigan series so superior."---Voya

The latest Miles Vorkosigan adventure is so understated that only very gradually does the emotional impact we have come to expect from Bujold’s novels register. Imperial auditor Miles is investigating a nasty Chernobyl-like accident on Komarr, a planet occupied by Barrayar as a first line of defense against the Cetagandans. Although the Barrayarans are financing the terraforming of Komarr, the Komarrans have a history of resistance to the occupation. Miles quickly discovers plots within plots, which involve both financial peculation and a band of Komarran terrorists who combine fanaticism and stupidity to a truly terrifying degree. In the course of these discoveries, he also meets Ekaterin Vorsoissons, wife of one of the key figures in the financial peculation. For most of the book, we see Miles through Ekaterin’s eyes and thus get a new perspective on his multitudinous complexities that fascinates despite slowing the action. In the end, the terrorists are outmaneuvered more than outfought, and what can only be called the courtship of Miles Vorkosigan gives every sign of being underway. Another fine effort from one of sf’s outstanding talents.---Roland Green, From Booklist

Rendered unfit for military service by incurable seizures resulting from his having died, been cryofrozen and then revived, Miles Vorkosigan has managed to land on his feet once again, this time as an Imperial Auditor handling top-secret investigations of the most difficult and vital sort. When a gigantic solar-powered satellite necessary to the terraforming of the planet Komarr is damaged in a collision with an ore freighter, Miles and another Auditor are sent to determine whether the collision was an accident or sabotage. Conquered within living memory by the Barrayaran Empire, which Miles represents, Komarr has a history of rebellion. Worse, Miles’s father, Lord Vorkosigan, who put down the last revolt, is hated by many Komarran patriots. Miles eventually uncovers what is apparently a straightforward scheme involving bribery in high places, but a darker and more dangerous plot is brewing below the surface, one that could destroy the Empire. In addition, he falls in love with the unhappily married wife of the government official who is his host. As usual, Bujold (Memory) tells a fast-moving story that combines just the right amount of action and wit as Miles continues to mature in a manner unusually complex for a series protagonist. Breaking new ground, Bujold tells much of her story from the viewpoint of Ekaterin Vorsoisson, the woman Miles falls in love with, and the portrait that emerges of a good woman stuck in a loveless marriage is both believable and intensely painful. Bujold continues to grow as a writer, and her work remains among the most enjoyable and rewarding in contemporary SF. (June) of the year and was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards.---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： 洛伊斯•麦克马斯特•比约德，1949年生于美国俄亥俄州，是迄今为止获奖最多的女性科幻作家。
比约德从小便喜爱阅读，受父亲的影响开始看科幻小说。中学时代初尝写作但仅为自娱。成家之后，迫于生计，以及在作家好友的鼓励下，才真正踏上专业写作之途。
1986年以《Shards of Honor》名声鹊起，以此作衍生出极受欢迎的招牌系列《Vorkosigan Saga》。她的创作迭获佳评与奖项肯定，包括三度星云奖、五度雨果奖。此外，作品也经常在《轨迹》杂志举办的最佳年度小说票选榜上名列前茅。近年又新开奇幻小说《五神传说》等系列，再度大放光彩。育有一对子女，现居美国明尼苏达州。
Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science fiction world in 1986 with the first of the Miles Vorkosigan Saga novels, Shards of Honor. She has won the Hugo award four times, and the Nebula award twice.Her short story, Labyrinth won first place in Analog Magazine’s annual awards.Having already created a classic hero in the form of Miles Vorkosigan, and captured a cult following the process, Lois McMaster Bujold now takes up her prolific pen to produce an epic of the most fantastic magnitude. A brilliant and detailed landscape populated with illustrious and demonic characters, ushers the arrival of a hero for the twenty-first century.

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