Our Book Club selection for November is **The Warrior’s Apprentice**, the debut of the Titular character of the Vorkosigan Saga, Miles Naismith Vorkosigan.

At age seventeen, Miles is allowed to take the entrance exams to the elite military academy; he passes the written but manages, through miscalculation in a moment of anger, to break both his legs on the obstacle course, washing out before he begins. His aged grandfather dies in his sleep shortly after, and Miles blames himself. He is sent to visit his grandmother Naismith on distant Beta Colony, accompanied by his bodyguard, Sergeant Bothari, and Bothari's daughter, Elena. Miles passes himself off as a mercenary leader as he picks up a ragtag crew, and soon his father Aral is under political attack back home as garbled rumors of Miles' mercenary operations trickle back. Miles must abandon his new fleet and dash back to Barrayar to stop the plot.

**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, one of science fiction's the highest honors.

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