Vorkosigan Saga/Trivia


 * What Could Have Been:
 * Bujold's original plan was to follow up The Warrior's Apprentice with a novel about Arde Mayhew, but her editor didn't like it and convinced her to write about quaddies instead.
 * Epunymous Title: Several novels have had Miles to Go as a working title, but it's never made it to publication.
 * "Miles to Go" does happen to be the title for the Bujold section of the Baen Books webforum.
 * Shout Out: Perhaps. The hero and title character of Georgette Heyer's Black Sheep is a resourceful gentleman named Miles Calverleigh, and his love interest reflects at least once that he has a tendency to make her laugh at times when she wants to be deadly serious. Elena Bothari in The Warrior's Apprentice says to Miles on two occasions, "Damn you for making me laugh!" And Bujold 's dedication for A Civil Campaign was to four ladies identified only by their given names ... including "Georgette." (The other three may have been Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Dorothy L. Sayers.)