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Cryoburn

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 The Vorkosigan Saga*
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The Vorkosigan Saga*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of science fiction novels and short story collections by Lois McMaster Bujold centering around Miles Vorkosigan and his parents Cordelia and Aral.  This is the series in original publication order.

1) Shards of Honor
2) The Warrior's Apprentice
3) Ethan of Athos
4) Falling Free
5) Brothers in Arms
6) The Vor Game
7) Barrayar
8) Mirror Dance
9) Cetaganda
10) Memory
11) Komarr
12) A Civil Campaign
13) Diplomatic Immunity
14) Cryoburn
15) Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
16) Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
Copyright © 2010 by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Angels were falling all over the place.
May contain spoilers
Alys gave way as Gregor went to help shoulder the bier.
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“Jin says you’re a revive. Did you really have yourself frozen a century ago?” That would have been just about at the end of Barrayar’s Time of Isolation, on the verge of a torrent of new history all of which Yani had more-or-less slept through. “I would think the oral chroniclers around here would be all over you.”

Yani vented a bitter laugh. “Not likely. The people here are glutted with revive interviews. I thought the journals might pay me, but there are too many of us up walking around. Nobody wants us here. Everything costs too much. The city’s too big. Settlement was supposed to be more spread out. Hell, I thought the terraforming would be halfway to the poles by now. The politics have gone all wrong, and nobody has any manners. . . .”

Miles made encouraging noises. If there was one skill Miles had honed in his youth, it was how to please an old man by listening to his complaints. Yani needed no more than a nod to launch into a comprehensive denunciation of modern Kibou, a world with no need nor place for him. Some of his phrases were so practiced they came out in paragraphs, as if he’d told them over to anyone who would stop to listen. Which, by this point, was no one—the few other residents who drifted in gave Yani’s table a wide berth. His rheumy eye brightened at this new audience who didn’t show visible signs of wanting to chew through his own leg to get away, and Miles’s suspect druggie status was temporarily forgotten.

As Yani maundered on, Miles was thrown back in memory to his own grandfather. General Count Piotr Vorkosigan, planetary liberator, un-maker and re-maker of emperors, and cause of a lot of that history that Yani had missed, had sired his heir late in life, as had Miles’s father, so that it was more nearly three generations between grandfather and grandson than two. Still, they had loved each other after their own peculiar fashion. How would Miles’s life have altered if Piotr had been frozen when Miles was seventeen, instead of buried for real in the ground? His impending return always a promise, or a threat?

 

Added: 14-Jun-2015
Last Updated: 06-Apr-2020

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 12-Dec-2013
Baen Enterprises
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
12-Dec-2013
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$7.99
Pages*:
352
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Once
Reading(s):
1)   3 Apr 2020 - 11 Apr 2020
Internal ID:
2189
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-618-24790-5
ISBN-13:
978-1-618-24790-2
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
David Seeley  - Cover Artist
From amazon.com:

Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove—he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp—an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future—attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out.

On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don’t mess with the secretary. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping—something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn’t due to power outages in the Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle—of trouble!
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Author(s)

Lois McMaster Bujold  
Birth: 02 Nov 1949 Columbus, Ohio, USA
Notes:
From the Kindle version of Shards of Honor:

Lois McMaster Bujold was born in 1949, the daughter of an engineering professor at Ohio State University, from whom she picked up her early interest in science fiction.  She now lives in Minneapolis, and has two grown children.  She began writing with the aim of professional publication in 1982.  She wrote three novels in three years; in October of 1985, all three sold to Baen Books, launching her career. Bujold went on to write many other books for Baen, mostly featuring her popular character Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, his family, friends, and enemies.  Her books have been translated into over twenty languages.  Her fantasy from Eos includes the award-winning Chalion series and the Sharing Knife series.

Awards

2011Locus MagazineBest SF Novel Nominee
2011World Science Fiction SocietyHugo Award - Best Novel Nominee
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