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Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem all his new power can't solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure.

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ONE CUNNING PLAN TOO MANY...?

It's spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ... money ... bio-genetics ... love ... lack of money ... incompatible planetary sexual mores ... love ... District succession scandals ... the Emperor's wedding ... and, of course, love ...

Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem all his new power can't solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won't do, go to subterfuge. He has a cunning plan ...

Lord Mark Vorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of Commodore Koudelka, has just become unrequited again. But if all his new money can't solve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurial scheming might. He has a cunning plan ...

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A science fiction and fantasy legend, Lois McMaster Bujold has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Her Miles Vorkosigan saga is a massively popular science fiction mainstay. Her many New York Times bestsellers include series entries Cryoburn, Diplomatic Immunity, and Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance. In 2020, Ms. Bujold was named the 36th Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baen; Reprint edition (August 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671578855
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671578855
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 1.1 x 6.75 inches

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A science fiction legend, Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most highly regarded speculative fiction writers of all time. She has won three Nebula Awards and six Hugo Awards, four for best novel, which matches Robert A. Heinlein's record. Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan saga is a massively popular science fiction mainstay. The mother of two, Ms. Bujold lives in Minneapolis.

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Gerania

Comedy of Manners

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2020

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I've enjoyed all the Miles books but this was possibly the best (I'm not ruling out that a subsequent installment could be even better). A Civil Campaign was pure, convoluted romp, incorporating sexual politics (literally in one case), romantic intrigues, struggles for power, comings of age, political flip-flops, venture capitalism, entomology, campaign strategy, homicidal plots, custody battles, wedding planning, and more, infused with comedy, horror, suspense, poignancy, and amour. It's a blend of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Georgette Heyer's best, Machiavelli's The Prince, Jane Austen, and Game of Thrones. It threatens to spin off into chaos frequently, but Bujold reins it in, barely, and creates a trajectory that could provide a term's study in structure for a literature class, with the myriad threads gathered together in a masterful and deeply satisfying denouement...or two, or three. I feel so grateful to the rare authors who deliver this kind pure reading delight.

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Book number fourteen (in chronological order) of an eighteen book space opera series

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2021

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Book number fourteen (in chronological order) of an eighteen book space opera series. However, some people call this a military science fiction series. There are several other books and short stories in the Vorkosigan Universe. This series won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best series in 2017. Also, several of the individual books in the series have either won awards or been nominated for awards. This book was nominated for the 2000 Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel. I have read this book at least twice. I reread the well printed and well bound new MMPB published by Baen in 2000 that I just rebought on Amazon (the second printing !). I have rebought the rest of the books in the series in MMPB.

Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan has sent his sights on Ekaterin Vorsoisson, a widow whom he met on Komarr while investigating the soletta space mirror destruction. She was not a widow when he met her and her husband died while with Miles, chained in the deadly Komarrian outdoors when his breath mask ran out of oxygen and power.

Unfortunately, due to the influence of interstellar technology, the people on Barrayar elected to have more male children than female children instead of the natural progression of nearly 50:50. The resulting 60:40 split of men to women has left many young men desperate to find a mate. The resulting confusion and one-upmanships has even affected the widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson during her mourning year when she is supposed to be left alone. Not so and even Miles has joined in, treating the pursuit of Ekaterin as a military campaign in his desperation.

Vorkosigan Saga (Chronological) by Lois McMaster Bujold
1. Dreamweaver's Dilemma
2. Falling Free
3. Shards of Honor
4. Barrayar
5. The Warrior's Apprentice
6. The Borders of Infinity (The Mountains of Mourning, etc)
7. The Vor Game
8. Cetaganda
9. Ethan Of Athos
10. Brothers in Arms
11. Mirror Dance
12. Memory
13. Komarr
14. A Civil Campaign
15. Diplomatic Immunity
16. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
17. CryoBurn
18. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

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Brilliant character development

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019

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The previous entry in this space opera series was a novel of suspense. Now, in the 13th novel in the Vorkosigan Saga, we've got a love story framed in a political thriller. And Lois McMaster Bujold pulls it off with aplomb. Both books are eminently readable, because character development is king in this deeply engaging story. The characters carry the story throughout. You're unlikely to find a more interesting protagonist in any work of fiction than Miles Vorkosigan. And the supporting cast is equally engaging.

Miles Vorkosigan is in love

Miles has just returned to Barrayar from his first assignment as an Imperial Auditor on the planet Komarr. A woman he met there has returned with him along with her five-year-old son. She is Ekaterin Vorsoisson, widow of a corrupt Barrayaran administrator who died in the course of Miles' investigation. Now Miles, a dwarf, is desperate to find a way to keep Ekaterin close and out of the clutches of the hordes of handsome (and physiologically normal) men he knows will crowd around her. Because Ekaterin is strikingly beautiful as well as extremely intelligent. Miles has fallen deeply in love with her and is determined to marry her when her year of mourning for her late husband is over.

An imperial wedding in a time of political machinations

Miles and Ekaterin have returned mere months before the Emperor Gregor is to wed another attractive and intelligent Komarran woman. Since Miles and Gregor grew up together in Miles' parents' home, and Miles' father served as Gregor's Regent for many years, Miles is unable to escape a leading role in the wedding. He is to be Gregor's Second, or best man. Unfortunately, while the wedding preparations move ahead, complicating everybody's lives, Miles is caught up in local politics. Two very nasty feuds among the Counts of Barrayar have broken out. Because of Miles' prominence as the son of the Regent and an Imperial Auditor, he's forced to play a leading role in resolving the disputes. Both Miles and his cousin Ivan are caught in the middle of both disputes. And ugly days lie ahead. Very ugly.

A clever business proposition

Meanwhile, Miles' clone-brother Mark has returned to Barrayar, too. Mark is the business genius in a family that cares little about money. He has brought with him a scientist who has discovered a way to genetically modify a certain species of insect to produce a highly nutritious substance by regurgitating it. (Miles calls them "vomit bugs.") And Mark has plans to build a huge food-services industry around the discovery. Unfortunately, all Mark's considerable resources are tied up in active ventures. He's out of cash. So, Mark, the scientist, and the "butter bugs" all move into Vorkosigan House, promising considerable complications. And to compound the confusion, Mark has fallen in love with Kareen Koudelka, a young Barrayaran woman who had been studying on the planet where Mark met the scientist—and the young lady's father is dead set against her having anything to do with Mark.

Thus it is that three love stories unfold—Gregor and Laisa's, Miles and Ekaterin's, and Mark and Kareen's—in the midst of a brutal political fight. Lois McMaster Bujold makes it work. The novel is both suspenseful and charming.

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My favorite “Regency Romance” novel

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Miles finally is on Barryar, and with a prospective Vor lady to woo. Too bad the dictum “fog of war” applies to Miles’ love life as well.

I am an avid fan of M. C. Beaton’s large catalog of Regency Romance books, and place this novel as better in all the right ways. From a truly intrepid heroine, and an astonishingly overpowered cast of characters, Miles has to somehow learn how to form a relationship for matrimony, while not destroying it due to his best efforts. And of course Bujold allows delight and dismay free reign to carry the couple’s story to…

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Carrick

Another Vorkosigan masterstroke

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2020

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This genius addition to the saga, comes immediately after 'Komarr' (which is essential to read before this) and is followed by 'Diplomatic Immunity'. It is included in the 862 page Omnibus No 5: 'Miles n Love' (which also includes 'Komarr' and a post-script novella 'Winterfair gifts'). Note that between Omnibus 4 'Miles Errant' and Omnibus 5, is a vital bridge book: 'Memory'. There are no omnibuses after No 5.

It is perhaps one of the richest explorations of Barrayan society and the inner workings of the Imperium. In a series that is deeply character driven this takes politics to extraordinarily personal levels, character driven plotting to news heights. The story has some extra piquant angles in several courtships (several unexpected) and some key votes that get us appreciating politics in new ways. And Gregor has a role here too, very refreshingly.

For some books it is vital to read them in order and this is one. It is generally a much richer experience if the whole series is read in chronological order. The context is important if subtle. The plots are heavily interwoven and you miss so many ironic digs if you pick a book up at random. This is easier now that the series is on Kindle (No more rarity: hooray! No more omnibuses: Boo!) but the numbering there is badly done and sometimes wrong. Real books often had helpful summaries at the back, but even they were incomplete and in any case usually leave out the omnibus options. To aid Bujold's many admirers, who may have missed a golden nugget here and there, due to a morass of editions-and-omnibuses, here is a guide to the whole Vorkosigan saga, including the omnibus contents:

-Falling Free (Novella: Stands alone. Gives context to 'Diplomatic Immunity' and is also published in the unsequenced Omnibus: 'Miles, Mutants and Microbes' (MMM). 832 pages)
-Shards of Honor (Omnibus 1)
-Barrayar (Omnibus 1: 'Cordelia's Honor'. 596 pages)
-The Warrior’s Apprentice (Omnibus 2)
-The Mountains of Mourning (Omnibus 2)
-Weatherman (only found with Omnibus 2 and the Vor Game)
-The Vor Game (Omnibus 2: 'Young Miles'. 838 pages)
-Cetaganda (Omnibus 3)
-Ethan of Athos (Omnibus 3)
-Borders of Infinity (Omnibus 4 and is also in the two non sequential Omnibuses‘ Borders of Infinity’ (BoI) and ‘MMM’)
-Labyrinth (Omnibus 3: 'Miles, Mystery and Mayhem'. 556 pages – and unsequenced Omnibus 'BoI')
-Brothers in Arms (Omnibus 4)
-Mirror Dance (Omnibus 4: 'Miles Errant'. 741 pages)
-Memory (462 pages, not in any omnibus)
-Komarr (Omnibus 5)
-A Civil campaign (Omnibus 5)
-Diplomatic Immunity (in the unsequenced 832 page Omnibus: 'MMM'. Alone is 283 pages)
-Winterfair gifts (Omnibus 5: 'Miles in Love'. 862 pages)
-Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance (432 pages, not in any omnibus)
-Cryoburn (339 pages, not in any omnibus)
-Gentleman Jole and the red queen (528 pages)
-Flowers of Vashnoi (novella 73 pages, not in any omnibus)

Page numbers vary a bit by edition of course.

The whole series is a joy to discover. Rich, intelligent, original, credible and deep.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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Rob Roy

Brilliant episode in the Vorkosigan saga

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2022

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Despite "A Civil Campaign" having relatively few situations involving physical jeapardy and pulse-pounding action, this is my favourite of the series so far. If you enjoy character-driven complex plots even more than the more typical space opera fayre of technical description, space combat and interstellar transport, then you surely will enjoy this.
Frankly this has more akin to Jane Austin with hints of PG Wodehouse than most space opera - albeit with elements of biogenetics and micro-economics, a huge dollop of political machination, uterine replicators and, of course, butter bugs! There are multiple romantic episodes and entanglements, all with quirks and twists.
Reading Miles's letter of apology literally brought tears to my eyes - not a common event while reading space opera ( perhaps occasionally when reading Weber and now, more frequently, Bujold) - this after a dinner party which had elements of pure farce. There is literally something for everyone in this novel. I have not been more diverted by a book in years. I usually combine mostly listening to the audiobook, with occasional reading if I have both media to hand. With "A Civil Campaign" I was compelled to read most of the book so that I could find out what happens next more quickly. ( that's not to say that the narrator was not great as usual! - he was!) I am tempted to say that you would not need to read the previous books first to enjoy this one, but I think you would miss a lot off the back-story references and you would lack the deep knowledge of the main characters which really makes this story outstanding.
Have I made it clear how much I loved reading this book!

nlondonhousewife

Lovely characters & world building

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2022

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There is a reason the author has won so many awards for this series. She delivers excellent world-building, sympathetic characters and a narrative that pulls you in and pulls you along at a good pace. Perhaps this book is best described as a romantic "comedy" with sci-fi overtones.

The series is long and suggested routes through it can be found in lots of the reviews. This book (12) cannot really be read as a stand-alone, but relies on Komarr (11) to set the scene. You can skip the others and these two together will still make sense.

The risk is that having started, you'll find yourself enthralled and keep going.

Shards of Honour (book1) and Barrayer (book7) also pair really well and are brilliant reads.

J. Heritage

A Galactic Jane Austen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2017

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I am just re reading the whole Vorkosigan series. I enjoy each book, but some of them are standouts, and this is one. It's a deft, frothy, beautifully plotted comedy of manners and absurdities. I would love to see it turned into a screenplay, ideally for a TV series so one could really linger over the lovely little details. If you're reading in order, it's a wonderful relief after the darkness of "Komarr". I rarely laugh out loud at books, but there are many snorts and several guffaws in this volume.

If Jane Austen wrote science fiction, it would be like this!

Serin6

Romantic science fiction comedy with real people

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2012

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Witty without being self-conscious, funny but not silly, this novel about Miles Vorkosigan's "campaign" to marry Ekaterin is the rest of the story which started with "Komarr" (the events in Komarr occur just before the start of "A Civil Campaign"). There are other, earlier novels about Miles but he was only a baby in the only others I have read in this series (Shards of Honour and Barrayar) so I don't think you need to read all of them to make sense of this one.
Miles' attempts to court Ekaterin do not work out as he expects, at least not at first. In the meantime his "clone-brother" Mark also has a girlfriend with her own ideas, picked up from the free-and-easy planet Beta, and the subsidiary characters are very enjoyable - funny without being caricatures. The humour is sophisticated and sometimes sly. I am not interested in descriptions of alien technology or battles in space and this book has none of these at all. There is political intrigue and a subtle and realistic interweaving of future technology and human behaviour in a modern feudal society. All done with a light touch and so well-written you feel you have met the characters in real life, or wish you could.

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