He informed her that Dubauer was effectively dead from his disruptor injuries, but Cordelia argued that even with severe mental trauma, she considered him alive and worth saving, even after Vorkosigan offered to cut his throat to end his pain. Cordelia immediately accusd him of being a "hired killer" over the death of Rosemont, then quickly realized Vorkosigan had been the target of a mutiny. When she awakened, she found herself alone with a Barrayaran officer, who identified himself as Captain Aral Vorkosigan, in command of the war cruiser General Vorkraft. " It must be like living with cannibals, to be a Barrayaran." ―Cordelia Naismith She passed out after she hit her head on a rock. Dubauer saved her by throwing his body in front of her, taking the brunt of the blast. During her investigation, she and Dubauer were surprised by a "hatchet-faced" Barrayaran soldier with a nerve disruptor. While investigating, she discovered her base camp destroyed by plasma arc fire, and one of her men Lieutenant Rosemont dead from nerve disruptor head wounds. It is a peace that earns her only ignominy - even though it foreshadows a new beginning, for herself, her lover, and both their peoples.Ĭordelia Naismith, Commander for the Betan Astronomical Survey from the extremely liberal and technologically advanced Beta Colony, had been exploring a newly-discovered planet along with her botanist Ensign Dubauer, when she saw her shuttle take off unexpectedly to return to her survey ship, the Rene Magritte. Now, captain of a throwaway ship on a mission of deception, she convoys a weapon of wicked subtlety to entrap and destroy an enemy armada.īut Cordelia will discover deception within deception, treachery within treachery, until finally she is forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Vorkosigan. She even wore the wrong uniform Cordelia Naismith, Betan Expeditionary Force, had been hurried into battle still wearing her old tan Astronomical Survey fatigues. ![]() In the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. The Reader's Chair audio edition won the "Earphones Award" in June 1997 and the "Critics' Choice Romantic Favorites" in February 1998, both from AudioFile. Shards of Honor came in second place for a Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1987 and was nominated for a Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel of 1986. The Reader's Chair audio edition, published in 1996, was read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan.Ĭhronologically, the events of Shards of Honor fall approximately one year before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan the tale describes the circumstances of the meeting of his parents Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith. The story has also been collected in the omnibus edition Cordelia's Honor. The epilogue " Aftermaths" was actually published first, in Baen's Far Frontiers, Volume V, Spring 1986. ![]() Shards of Honor, written by Lois McMaster Bujold and published by Baen Books in 1986, is both the first book published and the first book chronologically of the main sequence of the Vorkosigan Saga.
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