Lois McMaster Bujold. (2006). A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Lois McMaster Bujold. 2006. A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners. Blackstone Publishing.

Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners. Blackstone Publishing, 2006.

Lois McMaster Bujold. A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2006.

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     Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. In 2019 she was named a Damon Knight Grand Master by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, one of science fiction's highest honors. She has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award for her significant contribution to science fiction. Hugo awards for Best Series were received by the Vorkosigan Saga in 2017, and the World of the Five Gods in 2018.

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Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem that all his new power can't solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won't do, go to subterfuge.

Miles has a cunning plan, which, of course, has to be worked out in between District succession scandals and plans for the Emperor's wedding. And if no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy, just imagine what all Miles' friends and relatives can do to his romantic strategy.

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   • content: Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary, and her usual superb character development in a sprightly SF romance that her many fans will find enormously satisfying.
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   • content: This is a modern comedy of manners, with Lord Miles Vorkorsigan's somewhat inartful and not so subtle advances on the widow Ekaterin (who has sworn off marriage as a result of an abusive husband), the attempts of his clone brother, Mark, to begin a business producing "bug butter," and a few scandals here and there, all against the backdrop of plans for the emperor's wedding. Gardner rolls with the humor, holding the silliness in check but allowing it to move to the foreground now and again. With a well-placed tongue in cheek, he serves up a narration that has an underlying sense of seriousness and a clear eye on a plot that is entertaining and fun. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from August 30, 1999
     Bujold dedicates her new novel to the Bront s, Georgette Heyer and Dorothy Sayers, which gives a pretty good indication of the territory she's staked out in this well-done addition (after Komarr) to her popular Miles Vorkosigan series. Miles, forced by ill heath to give up his military career and having embarked on a second career as an Imperial Auditor (a kind of peripatetic judge and ambassador), is madly in love with the beautiful and brilliant Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Unfortunately, Ekaterin is the recent widow of a crooked government official whose death Miles holds himself partially responsible for. Their courtship is made even more difficult by a series of interrelated events. First, Emperor Gregor is getting married, and Miles, like everyone else in the government, is caught up in the complex social and diplomatic whirl surrounding the impending nuptials. Second, Miles's disaster-prone clone brother, Mark, has concocted a scheme to make a fortune marketing "butter bugs," unattractive, cockroachlike creatures that secrete a bland tofulike food product. Worse, Mark has set up his laboratory in Vorkosigan House, the bugs have gotten loose and Miles's parents, Lord Aral and Lady Cordelia, are due home any second. And then there's the dirty infighting going on in the Council of Counts over who should inherit two vacant districts, plus an attempt to frame Miles for murder. Through all these often hilarious and occasionally dangerous incidents, Miles strives heroically to keep his eye on the prize--the winning of Ekaterin's hand in marriage. Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary and her usual superb character development in a sprightly SF romance that her many fans will find enormously satisfying. (Sept.) FYI: Bujold has won four Hugos and two Nebulas for books and stories in the Miles Vorkosigan series.

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1. • source: World Science Fiction Society
   • value: Hugo Award
2. • source: World Science Fiction Society
   • value: Hugo Award Nominee
3. • source: Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine
   • value: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee - Best Book
4. • source: Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine
   • value: Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner

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