As I continue through the interminable Vorkosigan saga I’m still struck by how the tone has been changing, from the original intense and dark tone of the opening books towards something like a James Bond book - fun, a bit silly, full of intrigue, but ultimately not reaching for greatness.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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