Komarr makes another good alternate entry point for the series, picking up Miles's second career at its start.
Space opera and military-esque adventure (and a number of other things one can best discover for oneself), The Warrior's Apprentice makes another good place to jump into the series for readers who prefer a young male protagonist.Īfter that: Brothers in Arms should be read before Mirror Dance, and both, ideally, before Memory. The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game (with, perhaps, the novella "The Mountains of Mourning" tucked in between.) The Warrior's Apprentice introduces the character who became the series' linchpin, Miles Vorkosigan the first book tells how he created a space mercenary fleet by accident the second how he fixed his mistakes from the first round.
For readers who want to be sure of beginning at the beginning, or who are very spoiler-sensitive, start with these two. Shards was my very first novel ever Barrayar was actually my eighth, but continues the tale the next day after the end of Shards. The first two books in the series proper, they detail the adventures of Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony and Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar. I will list the sub-arcs, and then the books, and then the caveats. It was always my intention to write each book as a stand-alone so that the reader could theoretically jump in anywhere, yes, with that book that's in your hand right now, don't put it back on the shelf! While still somewhat true, as the series developed it acquired a number of sub-arcs, closely related tales that were richer for each other. Nevertheless, the books and stories do have a chronological order, if not a strict one. I have always resisted numbering my volumes partly because, in the early days, I thought the books were distinct enough latterly because if I ever decided to drop in a prequel somewhere (which in fact I did most lately with Captain Vorpatril's Alliance) it would upwhack the numbering system. I favor internal chronological, with a few caveats. The debate now wrestles with some fourteen or so volumes and counting, and mainly revolves around publication order versus internal-chronological order. Many pixels have been expended debating the 'best' order in which to read what have come to be known as the Vorkosigan Books, the Vorkosiverse, the Miles books, and other names, since I neglected to supply the series with a label myself.
The Vorkosigan Saga Reading Order Debate: The Chef Recommends
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