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Old 11-25-2016, 12:29 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Shards of Honor and Barrayar. The first two books in the series proper, they detail the adventures of Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony and Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar. Shards was my very first novel ever; Barrayar was actually my eighth, but continues the tale the next day after the end of Shards. For readers who want to be sure of beginning at the beginning, or who are very spoiler-sensitive, start with these two."
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I've recommended Bujold's Vorkosigan novels to many folks and I always recommend that they start with these two novels. After these two you can read them in most any order, depending on how you feel about filling in the blanks. Some of the later novels benefit from having read the one that was published just before.

Bujold was one of the joys that happened because I bought that first Sony e-reader and was looking for novels to read on it and discovered Baen. I hadn't read any science fiction since my youth and discovering such a great writer who'd published a lot was a real find.

Jim
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