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1. In 'Shards of Honor,' the first book, Commodore Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar meets and falls in love with Cordelia Naismith, a Survey Captain from what other planet?
2. Later in the same book, Cordelia (certainly not the damsel-in-distress type, but in distress just this once) is saved from Vorrutyer by an unlikely person: Vorkosigan's former subordinate, the somewhat insane Sergeant _____?
3. Skip ahead to Novel Number Two, 'Barrayar.' Cordelia has married Aral, who is Lord Regent for the five-year-old Emperor Gregor when what disgruntled lord declares himself emperor and initiates a civil war?
4. No doubt you've noticed that a lot of characters' surnames appear to start with 'Vor'. This prefix has a special meaning in Barrayaran culture; what does it indicate?
5. After this whole Pretendership and Civil War is over (thanks to Cordelia), an unexpected person tries to kill her infant son Miles. Who?
6. Time passes. Miles survives and gets involved in the workings of a mercenary fleet at the tender age of 17 ('The Warrior's Apprentice'). A highlight: he hijacks a mercenary ship with the aid of how many people (not counting himself)?
7. Miles's success, however, is tempered when Bothari is shot by a new recruit. Who is the shooter?
8. At the conclusion of the mercenary adventure, Miles escapes a treason charge and enrolls in the Imperial Service Academy. On his graduation ('The Vor Game'), however, he is assigned to a dismal post as weatherman on what arctic island?
9. And then Miles visits 'Cetaganda,' a strange and novel empire in frequent conflict with Barrayar. He quickly becomes involved in all manner of political intrigue involving what repository of the Cetagandan nobility's genome?
10. Miles eventually unravels the Cetagandan mystery, despite assistance from what bumbling but athletic cousin of his?
11. After a suitable interval, Miles ends up on Earth ('Brothers in Arms'), where he encounters a clone brother he never knew he had. This clone, it appears, was commissioned by a militant faction pursuing independence for what Barrayaran subject world?
12. The clone brother Mark appears again in 'Mirror Dance,' wherein he leads Miles's mercenary fleet on an unsuccessful raid of what anything-goes planet, home of such trades as the killing of clones for the sake of immortality?
13. Unfortunately, Miles bears some hidden scars from his last adventure. In 'Memory,' a failed attempt at concealment results in his medical discharge from Imperial Security -- but soon he is dragged in again, to examine the mysterious mental breakdown of what brilliant chief of national security?
14. Building on his success, Miles is called in to investigate the apparent sabotage of a terraforming mirror on 'Komarr'. While there, he falls in love with what woman, niece of one of his co-investigators?
15. With the Emperor's wedding approaching, Miles embarks on 'A Civil Campaign': persuading the woman he met in Komarr to marry him. His task is made harder by many other things, including Mark's introduction to Vorkosigan House of what newly developed, marketable food-producing insects?
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