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Loading... The Flowers of Vashnoiby Lois McMaster Bujold
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The Flowers of Vashnoi recounts the story of Miles's new wife Ekaterin and eccentric scientist Enrique as they attempt to repurpose Enrique's insects for cleaning up radioactivity from an old war zone. In doing so, Ekaterin encounters a family of refugees, who has to convince them to leave their radioactive home and join modern society. As much as I like stories about competant people being competant, this one had practically zero suspense. This was a nice way to get to know some side characters a little better, but there wasn't anything remarkable here. no reviews | add a review
Still new to her duties as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin is working together with expatriate scientist Enrique Borgos on a radical scheme to recover the lands of the Vashnoi exclusion zone, lingering radioactive legacy of the Cetagandan invasion of the planet Barrayar. When Enrique's experimental bioengineered creatures go missing, the pair discover that the zone still conceals deadly old secrets. No library descriptions found.
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This is a long short story or a short novella. In any case, while I liked having a tale told from Ekaterin's point of view, I felt that it wasn't quite as good as the similar plot in "The Mountains of Mourning". ( )