The point of view characters include women ( Cordelia in Shards of Honor, Barrayar ; Ekaterin in Komarr and A Civil Campaign ), a gay man ( Ethan of Athos ), and a pair of brothers, one of whom is disabled and the other a clone ( Miles and Mark Vorkosigan ).

Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, the protagonist of most of the series, is the son of a Betan mother and a Barrayaran aristocrat, embodying this contrast.

The society of Miles Vorkosigan ’ s lifetime is almost paperless.

By the time Miles Vorkosigan is 20, in The Vor Game, Beta Colony has begun to develop garments which protect the wearer from nerve disruptors.

Bujold devised for this planet a history which allowed for “ swords ‘ n ’ spaceships .” Barrayar in the lifetime of Miles Vorkosigan commands spaceships, computers, and other high technology, but its culture remembers dueling, examines newborns for defects and practices infanticide if any are found, celebrates the Emperor ’ s birthday by handing him bags of gold, and provides liveried life-sworn servants to carry love-letters sealed with the writer's blood.

Despite a significant technological advantage, the Cetagandans are finally driven off at great cost after many years of occupation and guerrilla warfare, in large part due to the leadership of General Count Piotr Vorkosigan, Miles ' paternal grandfather.

Shards of Honor and Barrayar concern Miles ' parents, while " Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma " concerns a distant ancestor of Cordelia Naismith, Ethan of Athos involves a few minor characters from other Vorkosigan novels, and Falling Free does not involve Miles or any of his family, though in a later novel, Miles encounters the descendants of the characters from Falling Free.

200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan, engineer Leo Graf encounters the Quaddies, who are genetically engineered to have an extra pair of arms instead of legs.

While Cordelia Vorkosigan is pregnant with Miles, an attempted assassination severely injures her unborn child.

Miles has just graduated from the Imperial Academy, and is at home at Vorkosigan Surleau with his parents.

At this point, they ( along with nearly everyone else ) are unaware that Naismith and Miles Vorkosigan are one and the same.

Out of curiosity, newly minted Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan volunteers to observe Imperial Auditor Professor Vorthys's investigation of a serious orbital station accident on Komarr.

** Miles Vorkosigan / Naismith: His Life And Times – timeline

es: Serie de Miles Vorkosigan

* Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan novels

However, examples of successful such pairings include Inspector Morse and his sidekick DS Robbie Lewis, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie Goodwin, Hiro Nakamura and his sidekick Ando Masahashi, and Miles Vorkosigan and his sidekick cousin Ivan Vorpatril.

It is an unusual item in the series in that it does not feature Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of almost all the other books.

Alternatively, it may be an indirect tribute to the actor Oliver Reed, whom Bujold is known to admire ( she has cited him as a model for Miles ' father Aral Vorkosigan ); Reed played the role of Athos in the 1973 film version of The Three Musketeers.

* Piotr Vorkosigan – Father of Aral, grandfather to Miles.

Vorkosigan, Miles

Vorkosigan, Miles

cs: Miles Vorkosigan

* 1839 – Nelson Miles, American general ( d. 1925 )

* 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.

* 1933 – Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer ( Miles Davis Quintet and Weather Report )

* 1930 – Vera Miles, American actress

Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.

* 1976 – Aaron Miles, American baseball player

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* 1955 – Miles Tredinnick, English playwright

* 1885 – Miles Burke, American flyweight boxer ( d. 1928 )

* 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U. S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

* 1948 – Miles Reid, English mathematician

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

* 1941 – Graham Miles, English snooker player

* 1926 – Miles Davis, American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer ( Miles Davis Quintet ) ( d. 1991 )

* 1923 – Red Garland, American pianist ( Miles Davis Quintet ) ( d. 1984 )

* 1940 – Joanna Miles, American actress

* 1986 – Miles Kane, British musician ( The Little Flames, The Rascals, and The Last Shadow Puppets )

* 1977 – Miles C. Allgood, U. S. Representative from Alabama ( b. 1878 )

Miles Dewey Davis III ( May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991 ) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

* 2001 – Tony Miles, English chess player ( b. 1955 )

* 1969 – Robert Miles, Swiss record producer and musician