Mira's Last Dance

I will say that while I have really enjoyed all of the Penric novellas, possibly Penric's Mission (which was actually well into novel length) might be the only one I really felt rose to Hugo level for me. They're great stories, but they seem a bit slight compared to the Vorkosigan stories; they're solid but not exceptional. That's probably a function of length, but also probably of their "quietness". I suspect that if Mission / Dance / Prisoner had been released as one novel, they'd have more of an impact for me. (I re-read Mission before reading Dance, and I re-read Dance before reading Prisoner. For those who have the ability and the reading time to do that, I recommend doing so.)