Mirror Dance
Five years ago, my life was a sadder, lonelier place than today. I had never been in love. I had never lived in Somerset. And I had never heard of Lois McMaster Bujold. When I met my partner, I felt that I had come home, both to this part of England and to an assortment of fictional worlds I had never encountered before, and their inhabitants. Bujold has created some immediately engaging heroes and heroines, but she can also make us care about and sympathise with characters we don’t expect to like, especially here: Mirror Dance ‘Some people have an evil twin. I am not so lucky. What I have is an idiot twin.’ Brothers Miles and Mark are genetically identical, but their lives couldn’t be more different. Miles Vorkosigan is a feudal lord on the planet of Barrayar, son of the Prime Minister, and cousin and foster-brother of the Emperor. True, it isn’t easy for him as a disabled person on a planet where disabled children are traditionally killed at birt