IN THE MAIL: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles, Mutants and Microbes. Includes her Falling Free, which isn’t a Vorkosigan story at all, but which was my first exposure to Bujold. If you’ve never read the Vorkosigan stories, you might want to start with Young Miles, which collects the earliest Miles Vorkosigan stories in one fat-but-cheap paperback. They’re good fun.