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As a change of pace, I just finished Lois McMaster Bujold's The Warrior's Apprentice. It's my first Bujold and the only science fiction that I've read in the last six months. The writing and characterization were rather ho-hum. Still, it's a pleasant twist for the protagonist to be short and crippled. The book's main entertainment value is seeing how the main character, through his cleverness, gets out of one impossible scrape after another. I will consider other volumes in the series as airplane books.