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Falling free by Lois McMaster Bujold
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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.

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Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold (1988)

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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.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
It was all right. Heroic engineer leads a revolution of the downtrodden IN SPAAACE. A decent premise but I didn't find the story or the characters very gripping. ( )
  yaj70 | Jan 22, 2024 |
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. ( )
  Alexandra_book_life | Dec 15, 2023 |
This was the first book I read in the Vorkosigan Saga and I really liked it. It had political intrigue, heroism, racism, exploitation, and genetic manipulation set in space with a great story. Fun, fast, entertaining read! ( )
  ladyoflorien | Aug 11, 2023 |
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. ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
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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.
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Bujold, Lois McMasterprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Elson, PeterCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gardner, GroverNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gutierrez, AlanCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Jaffee, Robert I.Contributorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lewis, SufordEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
McMaster, James A.Forewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Miller, KurtCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Nicolazzini, PiergiorgioPrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pietri, Maria CristinaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Seeley, DavidCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The shining rim of the planet Rodeo wheeled dizzily past the observation port of the orbital transfer station.
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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.

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Four-handed quaddies
In a race to live freely
Saved by Leo Graf.
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