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Audio book/unabridged. Very good SF story about a race bred to be slaves in zero gravity with hands where legs would normally be. An engineer tries to lead this group to freedom when funding dries up and extermination has been ordered. Very enjoyable, solid, classic sci-fi adventure. No wonder, of course, it's Lois McMaster Bujold ;) The adventure aside (with quite a bit of excitement there), you have such themes as the moral dilemmas of genetic engineering, human rights, and most of all, the choices we make. The characters are not as memorable as in the rest of the Vorkosigan universe, but they are alive and you care about them. 2021 reread via audiobook: This book is chronologically first but I have previously read the series in publication order. This time, I have reread this book first and it did make a difference. No qualms about giving it the full 4* this time around :) 2019 reread via audibook: Maybe only 3.5 stars for the book itself. Grover Gardner once again does a marvelous job with the narration -- I am so glad that the whole series has been recorded with the same narrator! 2015 review: This novel, #4 in the Vorkosigan series, is really a prequel. Set ~200 years before Miles' birth, it explains the origin of the quaddies. I think that I would have liked it more if I hadn't come to it in the middle of reading the series, as I missed Miles & it suffered in comparison to "Miles in Love" which I recently read and adored. It has several features which I generally like in my sci fi/fantasy reading such as the moral dilemma posed by a company creating humanoid workers who are considered the property of the company. I will have to revisit this Nebula award-winner sometime and see how it fares as a stand-alone.
Falling Free is one of Bujold’s early books, and it isn’t as technically accomplished as her later work. It’s definitely one of her minor books, but she’s so good that a minor book for her would be a major one for anyone else. Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher SeriesIs contained inContainsAwardsNotable Lists
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HTML: Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. Safety Regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped write them. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was to teach welding to a secretly produced batch of humanoid workers genetically engineered with two additional arms instead of legs to be ideally suited to working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation? Leo hadn't anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe nor in the rules. Leo adopted a thousand quaddies. Now all he had to do was teach them to be free. .No library descriptions found. |
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