Falling Free (Library Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433250853 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 330 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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. From Library Journal This recording, based on a Nebula Award-winning sf novel, centers on the moral dilemmas created when a bioengineered breed of humanoid workers are considered capital assets. The narration is shared between Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan, who handle the male and female roles, respectively. The packaging is also a problem, as this reviewer cut his finger on two separate occasions while trying to extract a cassette. The narrators attempt to give each character a unique voice, and although they succeed, the subtle nuances of a single reader are absent. Regret
Now I understand why Lois McMaster Bujold has won so many science fiction awards! For some time I’ve known that Lois McMaster Bujold is one of best of the contemporary science fiction writers. She’s won the Hugo Award five times and the Nebula three times. Somehow, though, I’ve managed not to read any of her work until now. I guess my rationalization is that she’s primarily known as a fantasy writer. I can’t relate to fantasy. But the Vorkosigan Saga is definitely science fic. "I Almost Lost My Job :-)" according to David Morgan. How the heck did I miss reading any of these in SciFi reading career? I cut my teeth on Tom Swift, first editions I bought with lawn mowing income. This is hands down the best SciFi series of books I've ever read. I bought the first one and simply couldn't stop. The Flying Spaghetti monster only knows how many hours of sleep I missed and how much work time I procrastinated to read these books. I read them in the order the au. Carl V. Anderson said A great place to start an adventure in the Vorkosigan universe. Two hundred years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan, in a habitat orbiting the planet Rodeo, a genetically engineered people, nicknamed the “Quaddies”, have been created as a labor force to work in null gravity, their lower appendages being arms rather than legs as in standard humans, or “downsiders”.The quaddies are not human in the eyes of their creators, they are “post-fetal experimental t
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. Now all he had to do was teach them to be free.Falling Free is the 1988 Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel. When humanoids are genetically produced for capital gain, what are their human rights? Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. Leo adopted a thousand quaddies. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless megacorporation? Leo hadn't anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe nor in the rules. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it