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BlackVoid,
Just curious, have you read all of the Vorkosigan series or just one or two? Yes Miles does tend to be very smart, but in many of the books his smarts gets him into huge amounts of trouble before he ultimately gets out of trouble... Also there is a few books where he is the one that needs rescuing.
Anyway, just curious. Everyone has their own tastes.
As for Brin, I thought Startide Rising and the Uplift War were great. I read Sundiver sometime later and its obvious that his Uplift Universe hadn't been as fully realized as it is in his later works. The Second Uplift Trilogy, well.. I think it was solid, but I think the first book started too slow.
To keep this post on topic... my opinion is that Dune is great, Dune Messiah is ok, and the rest of the Dune novels need editing. Its one of my pet peeves, sometimes authors who have written a really great book that sells millions of copies start believing that everything they write deserves to be published. I can think of several authors whose early work was great and whose later work was merely ok because it lacked the focus a good editor can bring.
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Bill
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