I fear I may have outsmarted myself....

[katharos]

...rather like Miles as I come to think about it.

So a few months back I feel completly in love with Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan saga, and set about getting my hands on the whole set. Unfortunatly only a few of them have been published in England - and out of order, wtf's with that? Amazon to the rescue. But a lot of the earlier books are out of print - and they weren't turning up cheap on Amazon marketplace.

So I hit upon I cunning plan. I would buy these big compendium novels priced at the cost of a single novel, thereby getting my hands on the outdated books. I wouldn't even lose out on any money by ending up with two copies of the same book - buying a second hand Vor Game, for example, was more expensive then buying the compendium that included the Vor Game. There was also the added bonus that each of the compendiums contained a novella from a previous collection called 'Borders of Infinity, so I was really getting 2 1/3 books for the price of one!

But now I've found out that those novella's were set in a larger narrative involving dialogue between Miles and his longsuffering, sarcstic superior Simon Ilyan! Which has been published no where else! *Cries*

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[katharos-8.livejournal.com]

*Thinks* There similar in a way... but in other ways they're very very different. Ed is almost selfish in a way in his absolute focus on his brother. He's willing to do just about anything and everything for Al. Whereas while Miles DOES have people who he would give almost everything for... the only thing you can't give for your hearts desire is your heart. And Mile's heart is in far larger, more abstract things than Ed's and, in the end, he would sacrifice anyone for Barrayar, whereas Ed... I think (and it has been a while since I followed the manga) if it was a choice between Amstis and a sure and certain cure for Al, Ed would let Amestris go up in flames.