The Warrior's Apprentice

Name: The Warrior's Apprentice
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1986

Miles Vorkosigan, seventeen and brittle-boned, breaks both legs on the entrance test for Barrayar's military academy. Sent to visit his grandmother on Beta Colony, he buys a condemned freighter to keep its pilot flying and takes a cargo job into a blockaded war zone. Baen published it in 1986 as the first novel to star Miles.

The case against

on Miles’s fast talk
“It’s hard to believe sometimes the things Miles can accomplish solely with his mouth”
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on the planet-hopping
“All the worm-holing and planet-hopping that went on had me a bit baffled”
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on the roles for women
“I would say I’m however not overly happy with the roles for women here”
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on the coincidences
“too serendipitous with all the right people with Miles at the right time”
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