* Who was the new resort manager in San Antonio for this season?
* What is the name of the holiday company that the reps work for?
* In 'Shards of Honor,' the first book, Commodore Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar meets and falls in love with Cordelia Naismith, a Survey Captain from what other planet?
* Later in the same book, Cordelia (certainly not the damsel-in-distress type, but in distress just this once) is saved from Vorrutyer by an unlikely person: Vorkosigan's former subordinate, the somewhat insane Sergeant _____?
* Skip ahead to Novel Number Two, 'Barrayar.' Cordelia has married Aral, who is Lord Regent for the five-year-old Emperor Gregor when what disgruntled lord declares himself emperor and initiates a civil war?
* No doubt you've noticed that a lot of characters' surnames appear to start with 'Vor'. This prefix has a special meaning in Barrayaran {culture;} what does it indicate?
* After this whole Pretendership and Civil War is over (thanks to Cordelia), an unexpected person tries to kill her infant son Miles. Who?
* Time passes. Miles survives and gets involved in the workings of a mercenary fleet at the tender age of 17 ('The Warrior's Apprentice'). A highlight: he hijacks a mercenary ship with the aid of how many people (not counting himself)?
* Miles's success, however, is tempered when Bothari is shot by a new recruit. Who is the shooter?
* At the conclusion of the mercenary adventure, Miles escapes a treason charge and graduates from the Imperial Service Academy. On his graduation ('The Vor Game'), however, he is assigned to a dismal post as weatherman on what arctic island?
* And then Miles visits 'Cetaganda,' a strange and novel empire in frequent conflict with Barrayar. He quickly becomes involved in all manner of political intrigue involving what repository of the Cetagandan nobility's genome?
* Miles eventually unravels that mystery, despite assistance from what bumbling but athletic cousin of his?
* After a suitable interval, Miles ends up on Earth ('Brothers in Arms'), where he encounters a clone brother he never knew he had. This clone, it appears, was commissioned by a militant faction pursuing independence for what Barrayaran subject world?
* The clone brother Mark appears again in 'Mirror Dance,' wherein he leads Miles's mercenary fleet on an unsuccessful raid of what anything-goes planet, home of such trades as the killing of clones for the sake of immortality?
* Building on his success, Miles is called in to investigate the apparent sabotage of a terraforming mirror on 'Komarr'. While there, he falls in love with what woman, niece of one of his co-investigators?
* Let's start off with an easy one: who wrote 'Open House'?
* What is the name of Samantha's husband?
* Sam's son Travis is how old?
* Which celebrity does Sam constantly make fun of?
* What does Sam do to make some extra money?