Welcome to another helping of Covet the Covers, aka Cover Love. This week I’m featuring Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan science fiction covers in honour of #Sci Fi Month 2020, which I’m linking to this post.
We are both huge fans of her writing – check out my reviews of Cryoburn, Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen and The Flowers of Vashnoi, which are all part of this long-running, highly successful space opera adventure that helped to redefine the genre into something more nuanced and interesting. Bujold showed herself years ahead of many of her contemporaries in following the fortunes of a highly driven, alpha male desperate to prove himself when growing up in a warrior-caste society, while coping with significant physical disabilities. His paternal grandfather had wanted him to be quietly euthanised as a baby… My favourite is the cover for Cryoburn – which is yours?
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These are awesome! Its hard to pick a favorite, but Shards of Honor jumped out at me. I think its the saturated red that I like😁
I love that one, too:). But then I always love red covers…
Cryoburn – and Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance – are the two most “modern” covers for this series, since the others are all fashioned after the older style used for SF, but in this case the covers are far less important than the contents. Even if I’m just a little biased 😀 toward this series…
Oh, I completely agree, Maddalena! And I wanted to highlight a series that had a massive impact on my thinking as a science fiction fan and as a writer…:))
Shards of Honour is great, much like Tammy it really jumped out at me.
Lynn 😀
It is a fabulous cover, isn’t it? Lovely start to a fabulous, fabulous series…
Too hard to pick just one!
It is a bit that way, isn’t it? They are quite varied – but I do think they work really well, especially together!
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These are definitely exciting covers!
They are, aren’t they? And it is the most fabulous series. So full of adventure and fun – and yet also providing issues that leave the reader thinking. Bujold’s uterine replicator is one such societal change, for instance…
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Cryoburn’s cover does look intense! I’m surprised by Civil Campaign–it looks so traditionally historical.