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Tides of Stars series by Tel (Mature)
Fandom: VORKOSIVERSE
Pairing: (no abbreviations, please)
Length: 76k words
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teldreaming
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read:
The Vorkosiverse is blessed with wonderful AUs, people exploring "what if?" things had happened differently. Some are short, some are very very long. This is a long one, but also one of the more far-out in concept. Miles from an apocalyptic future (now Jossed since Cryoburn came out) is accidentally sent back in time to Mirror Dance (in the omnibus Miles Errant), with an experimental ship, a dead pilot, Armsman Roic, and a three year old Princess. He has to figure out how the heck to save the world from the great enemy he knows is coming, starting with fewer resources than he ever has before. It's gripping, exciting, and wrenches events off course from canon in interesting ways. And the second story, "We All Want To Change The World" is even better, as they deal with the consequences of the first story.
Though he'd finally been forced to let the past go, but it seemed it hadn't returned the favor. This, he thought maniacally, was insane. The five-space physicists would freak. The military would freak even further. Miles had read enough speculative fiction to be uncomfortably aware how much of a Pandora's box the ability to travel through time was. Glumly, he mentally bumped the safety of the crossnetter above the safety of the princess in his planning.
Congratulations, Lord Auditor Vorkosigan. You've just destroyed the universe. Now what will you do for an encore? Everything he'd built in the last nine-ish years was gone in a shatter of quarks. As far as he knew, he'd just killed everyone he'd ever known.
But what now? Make sure you don't do it again, idiot, a voice in his head said.
One option, he supposed, was to sit back, not intervene, and starve to death waiting for events to sort themselves out on their own. Perhaps he would be more gentle on the fabric of the universe that way. That idea didn't appeal to him, not least because it seemed to invite an infinite loop in which most of his friends and family died horrible deaths.
So what was the alternative? Pursuing his vengeance across space and time? No, not just vengeance. Vengeance was destructive. He was phrasing the question the wrong way. It shouldn't be about who he could kill, but who he could save.
Objective identified. Save his whole damn planet. Well, that shouldn't be too hard. He'd have to play this very carefully, of course, and start small.
Miles stared at the navigation board and thought very hard. Eleven warships, two fast couriers, and five other support vessels, all loyal to him. Well, loyal to one of him, anyway. He could use them somehow. All paths to victory led through the Dendarii Free Mercenaries.
The first person he had to save, of course, was himself.
Tides of Stars series
Pairing: (no abbreviations, please)
Length: 76k words
Author on LJ:
tel , teldreaming Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read:
The Vorkosiverse is blessed with wonderful AUs, people exploring "what if?" things had happened differently. Some are short, some are very very long. This is a long one, but also one of the more far-out in concept. Miles from an apocalyptic future (now Jossed since Cryoburn came out) is accidentally sent back in time to Mirror Dance (in the omnibus Miles Errant), with an experimental ship, a dead pilot, Armsman Roic, and a three year old Princess. He has to figure out how the heck to save the world from the great enemy he knows is coming, starting with fewer resources than he ever has before. It's gripping, exciting, and wrenches events off course from canon in interesting ways. And the second story, "We All Want To Change The World" is even better, as they deal with the consequences of the first story.
Though he'd finally been forced to let the past go, but it seemed it hadn't returned the favor. This, he thought maniacally, was insane. The five-space physicists would freak. The military would freak even further. Miles had read enough speculative fiction to be uncomfortably aware how much of a Pandora's box the ability to travel through time was. Glumly, he mentally bumped the safety of the crossnetter above the safety of the princess in his planning.
Congratulations, Lord Auditor Vorkosigan. You've just destroyed the universe. Now what will you do for an encore? Everything he'd built in the last nine-ish years was gone in a shatter of quarks. As far as he knew, he'd just killed everyone he'd ever known.
But what now? Make sure you don't do it again, idiot, a voice in his head said.
One option, he supposed, was to sit back, not intervene, and starve to death waiting for events to sort themselves out on their own. Perhaps he would be more gentle on the fabric of the universe that way. That idea didn't appeal to him, not least because it seemed to invite an infinite loop in which most of his friends and family died horrible deaths.
So what was the alternative? Pursuing his vengeance across space and time? No, not just vengeance. Vengeance was destructive. He was phrasing the question the wrong way. It shouldn't be about who he could kill, but who he could save.
Objective identified. Save his whole damn planet. Well, that shouldn't be too hard. He'd have to play this very carefully, of course, and start small.
Miles stared at the navigation board and thought very hard. Eleven warships, two fast couriers, and five other support vessels, all loyal to him. Well, loyal to one of him, anyway. He could use them somehow. All paths to victory led through the Dendarii Free Mercenaries.
The first person he had to save, of course, was himself.
Tides of Stars series
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