Luzula

For me, Barrayar-the-setting reads as sf despite what could be Ruritanian trappings (sp?) because of the whole fear of/awareness of "muties," which in turn reads as inflected by WWII and the nuclear bomb and science fictional extrapolations therefrom
Oh interesting--I hadn't thought of that.

The audiobook of Shards of Honor was a little jarring to me at first, because one voice actor did the narration and all the female dialogue, and another one all the male dialogue. But I got used to it after a while, and I really liked both narrators. I can't speak for the audiobooks of the rest of the series.

I'm very aware of the “different interpretations of fractions” thing, because I was examiner to a student doing a thesis on that very thing. For 20 divided by ½, I'd probably spontaneously go for: a road crew can build half a kilometer of road per day. How long does it take them to build 20 kilometers of road?