Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
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Falling Free

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2009

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. 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.

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.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

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

Quotes

“Superb…Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.” Chicago Sun-Times

“Bujold’s best work in my opinion.” Science Fiction Chronicle

“Grover Gardner brings to Bujold’s work…an abiding ability to deliver a narration which communicates the emotional aspects of both the overall tale and the individual characters…Blackstone and Gardner have given Bujold’s favored book, along with the others in her Vokosigan series, high-quality treatment.” SoundCommentary.com (starred review)

“I’ve never been a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy stuff, but from the very first book in this series I was hooked. The characters grow and mature and take on wonderful shadings and subtleties. The dialogue is priceless and [Bujold] never misses an opportunity to mingle wry humor with taut action and a sprinkling of philosophical commentary.” Grover Gardner

Awards

  • SoundCommentary.com’s The Best of the Best
  • Nebula Award
  • AudioFile Earphones Award
  • Hugo Award
  • Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
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