Reddit reviews Young Miles (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)

I'd recommend the Miles Vorkosigan Adventures omnibuses by Lois McMaster Bujold, starting with Young Miles (there's an omnibus before it, but with Miles' mother as the protagonist).

Miles is similarily intelligent as Ender, and a very driven person. The first omnibus is a firework of genius. You follow Miles from one impossibility into the next and can enjoy his mad planning that somehow manages to save the day, but rides him and his entourage deeper into various problems.
Especially the first books about Miles have their fair share of action and spacebattles, but later parts go deeper into the psychology of Miles and various other characters.
The series spans over ten years in Miles' adventurous life and the omnibuses are cheap to get.

If you choose to get any, I'd suggest you don't read the descriptions on amazon or on the back of the books. I'd things spoilered for me, which was annoying. Oh, and the order of the omnibuses is kinda screwed up, with the last two swapped for some reason, which was another spoiler for me, since I realized it too late.

The Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold are a lot of fun. First collection is Young Miles. You can get the whole series off of one of the free Baen cds.

The Mageworlds series is also enjoyable, in a "clearly riffing on Star Wars" way. First book is The Price of the Stars, and is a mere $3 on Kindle nowadays. (Which is nice, since the early books spent a fair while being not-terribly-in-print.)

The Vorkosigan Saga - start with Young Miles, which is a collection of the first three books.

Young Miles

I love the Vorkosaigan series. Miles is like a whirlwhind of chaos, dragging awesomeness and interesting events wherever he goes behind him.

I also love the Honor Harrington series.

Honor is a bit like a female Miles, but more awesome, because she has a telepathic tree cat, and can singlehandly kick your ass, and the army you brought with you.

The City That Fought.

This one is a bit older, and is harder to find, but worth it. The story revolves around a city run by a person who's basically the ship's computer, and his Brawn. (Girl who does all the manual type things because he's literally stuck in a tube monitoring things). Just about anything by Ann McCaffery is good, though. I was introduced to her via her "Dragonriders of Pern" series, which is the best damn sci fi disguised as Fantasy I've read.

This may be off base, but if you're looking for some character-driven, some action, space opera, with probably my favorite written character ever, try the Vorkosigan Series, which starts with Young Miles. This compilation is two books and a short story, so it's worth the $8 in my opinion.

Give the Miles Vorkosigan books a shot. It's by Lois McMaster Bujold. Here is a link to the first omnibus edition, with the first two novels and a short story.

I heartily second /u/nebulousmenace recommendation. I would recommend starting with The Warrior's Apprentice which can also be found in the omnibus edition Young Miles.

The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold - quite a long series full of fantastic books and amazing characters. Start with Young Miles.

A great military/space opera sci-fi series is the Miles Vorkosigan books. They're action-adventure-drama-mystery-comedy. Really excellent. Start with Young Miles, when Miles is 17 and flunks out of military academy.


The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub completely captured me around your age. It's dark fantasy, and ties in with King's The Dark Tower series. Which you also could give a shot.

Sometimes you can get lucky and find an author that writes both in the YA and adult range, like Neil Gaiman.
I'd suggest Neverwhere and American Gods (which is a bit more adult than Neverwhere, but you should be fine to read it).

If you like to read, consider Young Miles. It's an extremely good sci fi story where the main character has something resembling OI.

Young Miles - Lois McMaster Bujold

Old Man's War - John Scalzi

On Basilisk Station - David Weber