About the Book
Locus Award nominee 1997.
Cetaganda is the latest installment of the
Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and
Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility
doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that they
will gain diplomatic polish on this simple mission, but when the
Cetagandan empress dies naturally and her lifelong attendant dies
unnaturally – apparently a suicide, but there are rumors – Miles and Ivan
find themselves in the thick of it.
Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated,
and deceptively alien culture, while handsome and lascivious Ivan
manages to get himself involved with several noble females at the same
time – a diplomatic no-no of the first order. As the plot thickens, it
becomes clear that to fulfill a boyhood fantasy and save the Empire,
it's up to Miles to do the job. He doesn't mind exactly, but... the Cetagandan empire?
