I fear I may have outsmarted myself....
Apr. 20th, 2006 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 I would buy these big compendium novels priced at the cost of a single novel, thereby getting my hands on the outdated books.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*
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 I would buy these big compendium novels priced at the cost of a single novel, thereby getting my hands on the outdated books.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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Date: 2006-04-20 07:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-04-21 04:01 am (UTC)I'm confused about these compendium novels and novellas. Borders of Infinity isn't available in the same form as in the US? Do you want the ISBN number, would that help? The one I have is 0-671-72093-7.
I'd hate for you to be Miles-less all the way over there. Don't worry; I'm sure you'll be able to get them all with a little forward momentum... ^_^
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Date: 2006-05-04 03:58 am (UTC)Anyway re: your Miles angst, you're not missing much by not having Borders of Infinity. Bujold originally published those novellas in sci-fi magazines. The publisher just wanted to get an extra book out of her, so it compiled the novellas into the one book. The "larger narrative" is approximately a dozen pages wherein Miles is laid up in the hospital (getting new arm bones) and Illyan quizzes him on some of his latest missions because some govt scandal seeker thinks that Miles must be embezzling money --- his missions can't *possibly* cost that much. You can read the first six pages here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0671720937/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-2982994-0704102#reader-link
Hope this makes you feel better.
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