Illyan softened slightly. "Your father will know better, though. And Gregor. And, er . . . myself."

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Miles looked up, to catch his eye directly for almost the first time this interview. "Thank you."

"You earned it. You won't get anything from me you don't earn.

That includes the dressing-downs."

"I'll look forward to them, sir."

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Author's Afterword

The Warriors Apprentice was my second novel. I began it in the fall of 1983, just six or so weeks after sending the manuscript of my first novel, eventually named Shards of Honor, off to a New York publisher, in blind hope and without a literary agent, in what is

called, variously for unpublished writers, "on spec(ulation)," "over the transom" or "into the slushpile." The character of Miles Naismith Vorkosigan was a gleam in my eye when I began the story of his

parents in that first book; by the time I had finished it, he'd already begun to take more substantial form. In the beginning I knew only

three things about Miles: he was born crippled in a militaristic

society, he was very bright, and he was extremely energetic. Since one of my own chronic complaints is that I never have enough energy, this last aspect of his character can legitimately be classified as author's wish-fulfillment fantasy.

Miles's first name was stolen from the character of Miles Hendron,

in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper. I was at the time innocent of the fact that "miles" means "soldier" in Latin, but I'll bet Twain wasn't. Miles's vaguely posited physical handicaps acquired a real-life template from a certain hospital pharmacist I used to work with; the height, the hunch, the head, the chin-tic and the leg braces were all lifted from this brilliant man. I took at least one of Miles's subtler psychological qualities from T.E. Lawrence. Lawrence had to a marked degree what one of his more prominent biographers, John

Mack, described as a power of "enablement"; somehow, people around him in many different contexts found themselves doing more

and better for the strength of his example and encouragement than

they might have on their own. On a still deeper level of

characterization, Miles's "great man's son syndrome," the fountain of so much of his drive and therefore my plots, owes much to my

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