Re: Gentleman Jole

On 5/20/24 1:43 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 18/05/2024 18.27, Tony Nance wrote:

On 5/18/24 9:04 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

I've finally gotten around to _Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen_.
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Oliver Jole appears to have had a long involvement with Aral and
Cordelia. I remember none of it. Was he on-screen in any of the
early books?

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According to The Vorkosigan Companion[1],

 I had no idea such a thing existed.

I found my 2008 edition for a good price at a used book store a long time ago - I think maybe Cryoburn had just come out, or was just about to.
Anyhow, it's almost 700 pages long, and is broken into 5 sections ("Parts") and 3 appendices. The sections are made of various essays, interviews, and articles, with the concordance taking up just under 300 pages of Part 5 "The Vorkosiverse Itself". Part 5 is by far the largest of the 5 parts. I'm realizing now that I haven't read many of the articles & whatnot; so now this is on the short stack to be read soe time this year.
Tony

 

  Jole (no first name listed) is in The Vor Game: "A lieutenant in the  Barrayaran military, he is Aral Vorkosigan's aide-de-camp during the Vervain cobflict. Blond, good-looking, and brilliant, he was commended for quick thinking durong a shipboard accident, and came to Aral's attention soon after. He accompanies Aral in the Prince Serg when they arrive at Vervain."

 That's all consistent with the morsels of his back-story in GGatRQ.
 I finished it this morning. After the Epilogue, there was s two page ad
for other Miles works, both novels and omnibii. Amusingly, despite the
connection to _The Vor Game_, it wasn't on the list.
 

[1] My edition was published before Cryoburn, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, and Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen came out. I don't know/recall if Jole is mentioned in Cryoburn or Captain Vorpatril's Alliance.

 That's the problem with trying to do a concordance for a series with a
still-living author. In fact, as RAH and Ian Fleming (at least) showed,
it's risky even after the author is dead, as they can still keep
publishing.