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When existing in L-Space just doesn't cut it
Vorkosigan series books I wish had been written, in no particular order:
The other half of Diplomatic Immunity.
I'm quite willing to take Ekaterin's word for it that she was fabulous, but I want to see her being fabulous! I wanted to see her facing down the haut and stalling off the imminent war and getting treatment for Miles, knowing it's all hanging on her, again.
The Warrior's Apprentice: The Home Front
This is another book where at least as much again of the action happens off-stage and Miles hears about it in couple of paragraphs afterwards. The Emperor and the Prime Minister on the outs, the head of ImpSec in his own cells for a month-it's a wonder there wasn't a civil war-Miles on trial, Ivan AWOL (having his social calendar organised must have been pleasant for Gregor that month), Gregor doing a number on his own best supports...It would be difficult to write, because the characters are so much more developed now. What I really want to know is what Cordelia thought of it, but I suspect that to get character growth it would have to be from Gregor's pov. That would give a lovely unreliable narrator thing as well.
Barrayar 2: Electric Bugaloo
More detail on Gregor and Laisa's courtship and early marriage. To have married Gregor, she has to be either a Cordelia-calibre heroine (there is a reason for all the Miles/Gregor, I suppose, and if Miles's sister had ever made it into the published Warrior's Apprentice, the shipping would probably have been overwhelming), or too infatuated to think. Obviously it would be preferable if she were the former, as I don't think ImpDivorce would be much of a story. It would have been very interesting, as well, to have been able to compare Laisa's introduction to Barrayar to Cordelias's, a generation earlier. I suppose there is a chance of getting Laisa or Gregor pov in a future book (I am rather bitter that there was apparently Gregor pov in the early drafts of ACC, but the scene(s) were rewritten. I suspect the wedding planning scene, because Gregor is unusually demonstrative, which would make sense if it was the original internal reactions rewritten as external.)
Sergyar
Well, we've had the other two, and I'd like to see what Sergyar's like now it's (semi-)colonised. I'd like to see more Cordelia pov, too, but I suspect that the only way we're going to get it is at Aral's death, and if that's the price, no thanks, not for another dozen books, please. Even apparent from the immediate mourning, I shouldn't think that Miles could be an Auditor and a Count, which would be a shame, and would kind of limit future books.
The other half of Diplomatic Immunity.
I'm quite willing to take Ekaterin's word for it that she was fabulous, but I want to see her being fabulous! I wanted to see her facing down the haut and stalling off the imminent war and getting treatment for Miles, knowing it's all hanging on her, again.
The Warrior's Apprentice: The Home Front
This is another book where at least as much again of the action happens off-stage and Miles hears about it in couple of paragraphs afterwards. The Emperor and the Prime Minister on the outs, the head of ImpSec in his own cells for a month-it's a wonder there wasn't a civil war-Miles on trial, Ivan AWOL (having his social calendar organised must have been pleasant for Gregor that month), Gregor doing a number on his own best supports...It would be difficult to write, because the characters are so much more developed now. What I really want to know is what Cordelia thought of it, but I suspect that to get character growth it would have to be from Gregor's pov. That would give a lovely unreliable narrator thing as well.
Barrayar 2: Electric Bugaloo
More detail on Gregor and Laisa's courtship and early marriage. To have married Gregor, she has to be either a Cordelia-calibre heroine (there is a reason for all the Miles/Gregor, I suppose, and if Miles's sister had ever made it into the published Warrior's Apprentice, the shipping would probably have been overwhelming), or too infatuated to think. Obviously it would be preferable if she were the former, as I don't think ImpDivorce would be much of a story. It would have been very interesting, as well, to have been able to compare Laisa's introduction to Barrayar to Cordelias's, a generation earlier. I suppose there is a chance of getting Laisa or Gregor pov in a future book (I am rather bitter that there was apparently Gregor pov in the early drafts of ACC, but the scene(s) were rewritten. I suspect the wedding planning scene, because Gregor is unusually demonstrative, which would make sense if it was the original internal reactions rewritten as external.)
Sergyar
Well, we've had the other two, and I'd like to see what Sergyar's like now it's (semi-)colonised. I'd like to see more Cordelia pov, too, but I suspect that the only way we're going to get it is at Aral's death, and if that's the price, no thanks, not for another dozen books, please. Even apparent from the immediate mourning, I shouldn't think that Miles could be an Auditor and a Count, which would be a shame, and would kind of limit future books.