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Book: Warrior's Apprentice
I finished this book some time ago, which means I probably remember it just well enough to talk for 15 minutes :o) Oh, it's Warrior's Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
This is a science fiction novel about a boy named Miles. The plot in this book doesn't matter that much to me, because it's the characters who shine forth. Wait, actually, the characters don't really matter that much to me either, because it's Miles who shines forth. Miles is the disabled son of some kind of lord, and he wants to go to space school like all the other kids. With that simple premise, Bujold follows through to fill out numerous kinks of mine:
1. Daddy issues. Mommy issues! Family issues.
2. The difficulty and pressures of living up to an image (and Miles's image, like my own personal one, is more his own than his family's, and thus far harder to live up to. Although he does have family issues, and his family putting pressure on him, the pressure he puts on himself is far worse, I think).
3. Making the best out of who you are (without waiting for it to come to you).
1+2+3 = fucked up, crazy sad funny sweet amazing shenanigans. In other words, I really loved this book; I really love Miles; and I really, really love space pirates.
The book starts off with Miles trying out for Space School (or whatever it's called. Whatever Ender did, you know? Or that's what I thought). I thought because the book was called Warrior's Apprentice, he was going to get into Space School, and that it would be kind of Ender's Game-y, or maybe Ender's Shadow-y, because Ender was the wonder child and Bean was the under dog. Miles starts out as the underdog, no doubt about that. I also had no doubt he would get into Space School with his brain, since his body obviously had trouble keeping up.
Miles has something like dwarfism, you see, and his bones are brittle like Samuel L. Jackson in that Bruce Willis movie. (This is a result of Miles's mother getting attacked when she was preggers with Miles. [...] She was attacked by aliens, but they were aliens from the planet she was on and only alien because it was another planet. It was nothing like Alien. Think more Star Wars, people. And Sammy L.) Anyway, so Miles was definitely getting into Space School, and it was going to be all about how everyone hated him there.
Except three pages in this book, Miles has failed to get into Space School, broken both his legs, and oh-yeah-will-never-get-into-Space-School-again.
The rest of the book is how Miles goes off to be a space pirate instead. He doesn't mean to; it's an accident. Space piracy just happens to some people.
You see why I loved this. Apparently I need to post more about it in installments.
This is a science fiction novel about a boy named Miles. The plot in this book doesn't matter that much to me, because it's the characters who shine forth. Wait, actually, the characters don't really matter that much to me either, because it's Miles who shines forth. Miles is the disabled son of some kind of lord, and he wants to go to space school like all the other kids. With that simple premise, Bujold follows through to fill out numerous kinks of mine:
1. Daddy issues. Mommy issues! Family issues.
2. The difficulty and pressures of living up to an image (and Miles's image, like my own personal one, is more his own than his family's, and thus far harder to live up to. Although he does have family issues, and his family putting pressure on him, the pressure he puts on himself is far worse, I think).
3. Making the best out of who you are (without waiting for it to come to you).
1+2+3 = fucked up, crazy sad funny sweet amazing shenanigans. In other words, I really loved this book; I really love Miles; and I really, really love space pirates.
The book starts off with Miles trying out for Space School (or whatever it's called. Whatever Ender did, you know? Or that's what I thought). I thought because the book was called Warrior's Apprentice, he was going to get into Space School, and that it would be kind of Ender's Game-y, or maybe Ender's Shadow-y, because Ender was the wonder child and Bean was the under dog. Miles starts out as the underdog, no doubt about that. I also had no doubt he would get into Space School with his brain, since his body obviously had trouble keeping up.
Miles has something like dwarfism, you see, and his bones are brittle like Samuel L. Jackson in that Bruce Willis movie. (This is a result of Miles's mother getting attacked when she was preggers with Miles. [...] She was attacked by aliens, but they were aliens from the planet she was on and only alien because it was another planet. It was nothing like Alien. Think more Star Wars, people. And Sammy L.) Anyway, so Miles was definitely getting into Space School, and it was going to be all about how everyone hated him there.
Except three pages in this book, Miles has failed to get into Space School, broken both his legs, and oh-yeah-will-never-get-into-Space-School-again.
The rest of the book is how Miles goes off to be a space pirate instead. He doesn't mean to; it's an accident. Space piracy just happens to some people.
You see why I loved this. Apparently I need to post more about it in installments.
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