World of the Five Gods: Penric and the Shaman Plans, wills, and expectations collide in this sparkling science fiction novel, as the impact of galactic technology on the range of the possible changes all the old rules, and Miles learns that not only is the future not what he expects, neither is the past. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor's key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission of inquiry, into a mystery he never anticipated-his own mother. Oliver Jole, Admiral of the Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined, bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his career.
Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Vorkosigan #17: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen Novel, 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2006 HC They prevail at a devastating cost-unexpectedly binding their fates together as they embark upon a remarkable journey into danger and delight, prejudice and partnership. It is Dag-a Lakewalker patroller weighed down by past sorrows and present responsibilities-who must come to Fawn’s aid when she is taken captive by a malice. Feared necromancers armed with mysterious knives made of human bone, they wage a secret on-going war against the scourge of the “malices,” immortal entities that draw the life out of their victims, enslaving human and animal alike.
But on the way to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, nomadic soldier-sorcerers from the northern woodlands. Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family’s farm.
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