So Emperor Gregor's most loyal Prime Minister Aral find himself admiring that young, up and coming officer Lt. Jole, and considers his options, especially with his beloved and Betan tolerant wife heading off to her homeworld for an overdue family visit. Perhaps falling on the poor boy would be a bit much. While Jole was certainly sending out the ( Read more... )

...I'm not excited by a new Bujold novel coming out. To the point that I'm wondering whether I should buy the ebook, or just wait until the paperback comes out.

Just thinking about seawasp's Grand Central Arena books ( Read more... )

For avanti_90: “A contest for mad architects”

Note: Yeah I said no fanfic requests. I reserve the right to be inconsistent.

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Third Annual Dono Vorrutyer Memorial Architecture Competition“Aral, are you all right?” Cordelia asked with concern. Her husband the Lord Regent was standing in front of the model apartment building, one of two dozen on ( Read more... )

( Evil knows evil )

For sraun's prompt of "Barrayar's reaction to a Ferin trick-or-treater "

( Actually it kinda veered off from that idea. I'll try write something closer to what was asked later. )

For chewipaka 's prompt of "Terinu and Miles Vorkosigan"

Miles blinked. "Even by House Ryoval standards, you're incredible"I ain't a genetic construct, shorty," the young man said. His skin was as grey as Miles' old Denadrii uniform, with a seven foot long tail capped by an enormous spade emerging from the bottom of his spine and a pair of thin, moble ( Read more... )

For avanti_90 's prompt of "A post-Cryoburn drabble from a character other than the five who got drabbles in the book."

( Spoiler cut for the two people who haven't read it. )

For chaypeta 's prompt of "Mark Vorkosaigan plans the perfect birthday surprise for Kareen and is having a hard time trying to hide it from her. "

"Mark! I can't access our account files!" Kareen shouted, her voice rising in panic as she rushed into the bedroom ( Read more... )

For avanti_90 's prompt of "Daleks invading Barrayar"

"Commander Vorkosigan, what is your situation?" Gregor demanded.

"The Dalek vessels have completed crossing the new wormhole, or whatever that thing that opened up is," Aral Alexander reported across the increasingly fuzzy comm link. "The Prince Serg, Prince Xav and the Admiral Vorkosigan have all ( Read more... )