Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
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Falling Free
A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for 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 megacorporation? He hadnt 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.

About Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. In 2019 she was named a Damon Knight Grand Master by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, one of science fiction’s highest honors. She has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award for her significant contribution to science fiction. Hugo awards for Best Series were received by the Vorkosigan Saga in 2017, and the World of the Five Gods in 2018.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Choko on December 24, 2024

*** 4.25 *** "... “On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS” ..." Evgeny and I decided to read the whole series together:) It turned out to be a great decision:):):) I just closed the last page and needed to get on here and say how much I enjoyed this book! It is the......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on October 03, 2017

Update 10/3/17 Re-read I think I just relaxed into this read, knowing damn well that it was going to be a novel of revolution against corporate idiots and assholes. Understanding that this came out in '88 goes a long way to grooving to the sense of hate and loathing we all felt during that time perio......more

Goodreads review by mark on August 05, 2016

engineer encounters hideous situation involving exploitation of a unique group of workers. engineer fights against this hideous situation. so this is really a 2 star book, whatever, I'm giving it 3 stars because yeah I liked it, and more importantly I would never give 2 stars to a friend and at this......more

Goodreads review by Trish on October 06, 2017

No fate but what we make. That could be the motto for this story and I loved the concept. This is a quite old scifi book, belonging to a quite long series. But it didn't show in the way I first thought. The story is about an engineer arriving on a space station in order to teach some employees of the......more

Goodreads review by Justine on April 24, 2020

Shockingly, my first book by the prolific and decorated Lois McMaster Bujold, but definitely not my last. This was really enjoyable for me. I sometimes struggle with older SF, finding it a bit stiff and not as expressively written as I prefer. That wasn't the case here. I loved the compact story that......more

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