A CIVIL CAMPAIGN:A COMEDY OF BIOLOGY AND MANNERS

Book ID/图书代码： 13005504B09689

English Summary/英文概要： One cunning plan too many? It’s spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ...money ...bio-genetics ...love ...lack of money ...incompatible planetary sexual mores ...love ...District succession scandals ...the Emperor’s wedding ...and, of course, love ...Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem all his new power can’t solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won’t do, go to subterfuge. He has a cunning plan ...Lord Mark Vorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of Commodore Koudelka, has just become unrequited again. But if all his new money can’t solve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurial scheming might. He has a cunning plan ...’It’s another winner with all kinds of unexpected adventures ...Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and style! A sprightly conducted romance with twists and turns that could only happen in a Vorkosigan-inspired novel...Boy, can she write!’ -Anne McCaffrey.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 年轻的帝国审计官迈尔斯•科西根勋爵遇到了一个权力无法解决的难题：他深深地爱上了一位美丽地孀居贵妇，可后者偏偏对婚姻抱着偏执的反感。美人的防线似乎坚不可摧，但身为银河帝国秘密行动老手的迈尔斯知道，正面进攻失败时，翼侧迂回往往可奏奇功……
惯于在劣势下反败为胜的伊凡•帕特利尔勋爵同样无比困惑：如何赢得公众的拥戴……阴谋、基因、金钱与政治。在这个春天，萨塔那•弗•巴星球上，几位出类拔萃的人物又一次着手创造奇迹。(RH)

Awards/获奖情况：Another yarn in Bujold’s military-family series (Mirror Dance, 1994, etc.) set on planet Barrayar, home of the dwarfish, multitalented Miles Vorkosiganhis secret identity is that of the fearless mercenary leader Admiral Naismithand his obese clone-brother Mark. Here, the Emperor Gregor comes to Barrayar to be wed, with Miles’s aunt, the Lady Alys Vorpatril, making the arrangements. Amid the pomp and circumstance, Miles’s tender, careful wooing of lovely widow Madame Ekatarin Vorsoisson will stir intrigues both political and romantic. Whatever the actionand, physically, there isn’t muchMiles will be in the thick of it. Inviting if sometimes overembellished folderol, with an agreeable sense of humor.---From Kirkus Reviews

As an Imperial Auditor, Miles Vorkosigan involves himself in the Emperor’s wedding plans and discovers his own romantic interest in Lady Ekaterin Vorsoisson. The latest in Bujold’s space opera featuring the diminutive nobleman Miles Vorkosigan combines a comedy of manners with political intrigue as suspicious deaths and treachery threaten to cast a damper on galactic affairs. Libraries should purchase where the series is popular.---From Library Journal

The latest Miles Vorkosigan adventure has him campaigning in four plots. Courting the lovely widow Ekaterin Vorsoissons, he must overcome her resistance to marrying again. As best man at Emperor Gregor’s wedding, he must wade hip-deep in social intrigue. As an imperial auditor, he must deal with two disputes over aristocratic titles, one of which arose because one claimant has had gender-changing surgery. And as heir to the Vorkosigan title, he has duties contingent on his clone-sibling Mark’s complicated courtship of Karreen Koudelka. Bujold weaves all four actions into a seamless whole that her faithful readers may rank among the best books in an outstanding series. Familiarity with most of the characters and with Barrayaran society is expected, however, and readers new to Miles may feel somewhat at sea in this comedy of manners--the banquet at Vorkosigan House is one of Bujold’s most memorable scenes. There is, of course, a pleasant remedy for such discomfort: go further back in the Vorkosigan corpus and read forward!---Roland Green, From Booklist

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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