The mission goes awry, Miles’s rescue attempt goes even more wrong, and Miles ends up killed and placed in cryogenic suspension for future resuscitation.
But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on an unauthorized mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson’s Whole, things start to get really messy. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. The dwarfish, fetally-damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. You can read this before Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8) written by Lois McMaster Bujold which was published in 1994–. The new and better Mark doesn't really want to kill his brother, but still it may come to that: Mark to stay, Miles to go.Brief Summary of Book: Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8) by Lois McMaster Bujold But in the intervening years Mark has learned that without Miles he is. In Brothers in Arms that conspiracy was routed and Mark made more or less compliant to his new Miles-less fate. For Mark Vorkosigan was created and raised up for only one purpose: to become Miles, to murder and replace him. Miles is often mistaken for a mutant by his mutant loathing countrymen.īut there is one who does envy him, who wants to be him: his brother, his cloned stranger formed from tissue stolen from Miles when he was a child.
Thanks to heroic medical intervention, Miles survived his near fatal brush with war gas-as a pain-filled dwarf with bones as weak and brittle as some malign composite of chalk and glass. When assassins came to rid the world of his father, his mother, pregnant with Miles, was in the line of fire, and Miles was but an egg for the omelet in an all too literal sense. Even the fact that Miles is third in line to the throne and personally owns a major chunk of his home planet would not tempt any normal person to change places with him. Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending the naval academy, and even though his mother was the beautiful Cordelia, the ship captain who has taught the Lords of Barrayar much about the perils of sexism.
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