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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
The Vorkosigan "saga" is horrific. Absolutely cheesy and contrived.
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Actually there are a lot of people who really like the Vorkosigan books, and don't necessarily consider it to be all that contrived.
That being said, for the most part (with one or two exceptions, most notably one of the novellas), I would consider the books to be anything other than military fiction. Some of them are space opera, some are mystery novels, There is even a couple of romances in there (And one of those, a comedy of manners).
I believe Bujold's basic operating principle seems to be to figure out exactly how much trouble she can get her protagonist into and still have him come out alive at the end (And I stress end...).
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Bill