Kirk and Sam kick off their full series read-through of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga with her 1986 novel Shards of Honor.

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VOR-CABULARY

• Casuistry - specious or deceptive reasoning (the meaning as used in this book)
• Saturnine - sullen, gloomy, or sour, also a word LMB loves and is honestly pretty great
• Pith - to kill an animal by piercing or severing the spinal cord
• Gavotte - a dance
• Hagridden - to be harassed or tormented
• Stygian - Of the river Styx. Very dark, gloomy, or forbidding.
• Batman - someone assigned as personal servant to a (most often British) military officer

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📚 VORKOSIGAN SAGA READING ORDER

1. Shards of Honor
2. Barrayar
3. The Warrior’s Apprentice
4. The Vor Game
5. Cetaganda
6. Brothers in Arms
7. Borders of Infinity
8. Mirror Dance
9. Memory
10. Komarr
11. A Civil Campaign
12. Falling Free
13. Ethan of Athos
14. Winterfair Gifts + Diplomatic Immunity
15. Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance
16. The Flowers of Vashnoi + Cryoburn
17. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen