The Warrior's Apprentice

This is the first in a long-running, action-packed science fiction series starring Miles Vorkosigan. He is brilliant, driven, ambitious, hyperactive, and neurotic. He also suffers from a chronic disability that makes him unfit for military service on his home planet. This is why he takes to the stars for a life of adventure and excitement under the pseudonym Miles Naismith, Admiral of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries.

This book is our introduction to Miles and shows the birth of the Naismith persona, and it is fabulous fun on every page. I devoured this series like potato chips.

I loved Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series. By this book; I had become a hopeless fan girl. Not of Bujold, though she is a Grandmaster of writing, but of her character, Miles Vorkosigan. I became a proud member of Miles Minions.

As someone with a genetic abnormality myself, I adored the way he let nothing stop him and careened from one adventure/disaster to the next. The characters and story are so well written that I forgot the author and was immersed in Miles’ life.

This gave me my almost impossible goal as an author. I want to create a character… show more.

This book introduces Miles Vorkosigan, a young man from the planet Barayar, who is afflicted with brittle bones but refuses to let that slow him down—often to his own detriment. Denied the family tradition of military service because he cannot pass the physical, Miles goes on to assemble his own mercenary band, complete with spaceships. The author’s masterful use of language and her outlandish sense of humor had me laughing, quoting lines to my husband, and saying, “Dang, I wish I’d written that!” Miles goes on to further adventures—and misadventures--but this first book is a hook that will reel you… show more.

What if you were crippled from birth but you knew that you were destined for greater things and larger-than-life heroics? Miles’ embryo was damaged by an attack on his mother before he was even born. Try as he may, he can’t succeed in the only career he ever wanted... the military. He failed at that but fortunately he’s an unimaginable genius, with a streak of luck the size of a planet. He’ll just stumble into making his own army and try not to be executed for treason.

Another normal man... even below average, physically at least. But he can drag… show more.