Book Review Lois Mcmaster Bujold THE VOR Game
Miles is sent to be a spy, and finds few he can trust, and his own Emperor is becoming suicidal. Oh, dear.
BOOK REVIEW – LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD – THE VOR GAME 1990 Baen Press.
The astonishing, Hugo Award winning concluding book in the Young Miles cycle of stories.
Following his enforced detention after the events in The Weatherman (the story opening the novel), Miles finds himself released with an assignment in espionage. Rival races are competing for control of a wormhole in space, currently guarded by the Vor. Miles is instructed to investigate, and regain control of his own galactic militia, The Dendari, who he duped into believing he was an Admiral in an earlier book, The Warrior’s Apprentice. Miles knows that few will appreciate his return following such a deception.
On route, he finds himself adopting other aliases, and in one sequence, it is clear that everyone he meets is a spy pretending to be someone else.
His mission is rendered even more problematic when he discovers that one of the others is the young Emperor of the Vor people, who has a terrible secret – he is suicidally depressed. Miles struggles to fulfil his mission, avoid seduction by a beautiful, but treacherous and insane woman, keep his Emperor alive and avoid the treachery of his own people and to cap it all, the vengeful villain he faced during his Weatherman assignment is also embroil led in events.
Epic, human, humane and brilliant story telling throughout.
Arthur Chappell
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