
Falling Free
Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4
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Grover Gardner
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 mega-corporation?
He 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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Critic reviews
Nebula Award Finalist, Best Novel, 1988
"Superb....Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary." (Chicago Sun-Times)
"Bujold's best work in my opinion." (Science Fiction Chronicle)
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This compelling story draws you into the fate of the Quaddies, genetically engineered slaves with a second set of arms in place of legs. Their desire to procreate and live as normally as they can, to experience the kind of lives we, as humans, take for granted, became far more absorbing to me than I had anticipated.What does Grover Gardner bring to the story that you wouldn???t experience if you just read the book?
Lois McMaster Bujold is a truly fine writer, with a superb ability to capture your imagination when you least expect it...Grover Gardner does complete justice to her storytelling, narrating convincingly and without any distractions for the reader. Lois's "voice" still rings true.Any additional comments?
I recommend you read this book as background after experiencing a few of the early Miles Vorkosigan novels.Another Satisfying Prequel to Miles Vorkosigan
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The quaddies seek freedom
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thought provoking adventure
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Not quite what I expected; but good.
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There are some general ethics issues. For example, debates on the merits of transparency versus cover-up.
And, I believe the Sci-Fi elements of the book are a strength. Clever and feasible technology.
However, the book had a few shortcomings as a novel. I did not find myself becoming particularly attached to any of the characters.
This book is a finalist for the Prometheus Awards "Hall of Fame" to be announced at Worldcon in September 2012.
John Christmas, author of "Democracy Society"
interesting concept, well written
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The plot isn't particularly complex and it goes exactly where you think it's going to, nary a twist in sight. The characters are not really three-dimensional, although they're very nicely painted 2D. Basically it's a fun read about an engineer who runs into a moral dilemma and engineers his way around the evil bureaucrats and their perilously binding, emotionless red-tape and into a brave new world.
Uncomplicated moral science fiction
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Actually quite good.
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#hopepunk
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As a science fiction story, the book shows you what’s being lost when newer SF books (even if they’re excellent in they’d way) are being structural (like the Three Body Problem) or transactional (like The Expanse) - there’s a degree of trade off between that and character description and development.
Recommended not only for SciFi fans
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A new human species makes its preview.
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