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Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume:
Falling Free—The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where children had been bio-engineered to have four arms (and no legs) to function in zero gravity. Now that they’re no longer needed, a heartless mega corporation is getting rid of them before they eat into the profit margin. Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies—now he had to teach them to be free.
“Labyrinth”—When Miles Vorkosigan is captured while on a secret mission to a lawless world, his only hope of escape is an unlikely pair of allies: a quaddie and a teenage werewolf.
Diplomatic Immunity— Miles Vorkosigan and his wife were heading home for the births of their first children, but a major diplomatic disaster is looming at Graf Station, colonized by the descendants of the original quaddies, and duty calls. Unfortunately, diplomatic immunity doesn’t carry over to immunity from a very nasty biological weapon. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back. . . .
About the Author
Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy and has won six Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards, including a Nebula Award for Falling Free, included in Miles and Metallurgy. She immediately attracted attention with her first novel, Shards of Honor, which began her popular Vorkosigan series, and quickly followed it up with The Warrior’s Apprentice, which introduced young Miles Vorkosigan, one of the most popular characters ever in science fiction. Her recent fantasy series for Harper-Collins has been a top seller, and its second entry, Paladin of Souls, took home her latest Hugo Award. The mother of two, Ms. Bujold lives in Minneapolis, MN.
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3.5 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)
39 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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READ the description!, Feb 26 2008
By K. Ostertag "Reference Librarian" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Miles, Mutants and Microbes (Hardcover)
Some of the other reviewers apparently neglected to read the book description ("Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume"!), and gave the work a poor review on the basis of their own negligence because it wasn't new material. No, it is *not* new material, but this is not a new thing for the Vorkosigan series. This title is, in fact, the fifth Vorkosigan Universe omnibus (after Vorkosigan's Game; Young Miles; Miles, Mystery and Mayhem; and Miles Errant-- Miles in Love comes after this one). It packs all the Quaddie stories in one neat little volume: the Nebula Award-winning Falling Free, which is set 300 years P.M. (pre-Miles) and provides some fascinating background on how the universe that Miles knows came to be that way; the short story "Labyrinth," which is Miles' first contact with a living, breathing Quaddie; and the novel Diplomatic Immunity, which brings Miles and his new wife back to Quaddiespace, where it all began.These stories include some of the best and most sensitive writing in the whole series, in my opinion, and I love the omnibus format. Not only does it save me a bit of shelf space (that is, if I can bear to toss my original copies), but it puts things together thematically-- we get the *whole* Quaddie story in one volume now, and it's much easier to see the connections between the beginning and ending novels. I adore Bujold's Miles books, and I wish she'd write more of them, too, but meanwhile, I'm happy to have the omnibus editions.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
well written reprints of three Quaddie tales, Aug 8 2007
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Miles, Mutants and Microbes (Hardcover)
"Falling Free". Engineer Leo Graf is sent to Cay Habitat, where bio-engineering led to "Quaddie" children having four arms and no legs to perform in a zero gravity environment. His job is to train these Quaddies in welding in space. However, new technology and a bottom line mentality leave the Quaddies expendable unless Leo intervenes."Labyrinth". Over two centuries after Leo's mission, Miles Vorkosigan goes undercover as Dendarii Mercenary Admiral Naismith to escort a genetic research scientist defecting from his current employer on the lawless planet Jackson's Whole. However, instead of completing his secret mission successfully, his pick up refuses to leave without taking his experimental samples with him. However, to obtain them Miles must kill an eight-foot tall bio-engineered killing machine that has the other "species" buried inside his calf. The new corporate owner of the giant learns of Miles' quest leaving the outsider needing help that he receives from enigmatic Bel Thorne and Quaddie musician Nicol.
"Diplomatic Immunity". Imperial auditor Miles Vorkosigan and his wife Ekaterin enjoy their belated intergalactic honeymoon until the ship's Tau Cetan captain informs them that a Barrayaran Imperial Courier has an official sealed data disc for him. Emperor Gregor Vorbarra wants Miles to investigate a murder involving an impoundment of a Komarran trader ship on Graf Station in remote "Quaddiespace".
These well written reprints of three Quaddie tales provide readers with exciting cautionary science fiction thrillers in which Lois McMaster Bujold warns her audience to insure science does not cross an ethical line with bioengineering throwaway people. Exciting especially the Miles' saga, Quaddie fans will enjoy this omnibus edition.
Harriet Klausner
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Mite Misleading, Jan 10 2011
By lesslucid - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Miles, Mutants and Microbes (Hardcover)
I really like Bujold's work, and I enjoyed the first story in this book. However, I am a bit ticked off to discover that this omnibus edition breaks the pattern set by the previous omnibus editions. That is, up to this point, a new fan could start reading at "Cordelia's Honor", move on to "Young Miles", and so on, knowing that one was reading the stories in chronological order and missing nothing. And so I expected would be the case with this book... however, I now discover that the first story pre-dates the rest of the series - and fair enough, it has to go somewhere and why not here? But then the second story is one I've already read in a previous omnibus ("Miles, Mystery and Mayhem") and the third is one that comes from much later in the continuity - in fact, after all the stories in "Miles in Love". But then I turn to my copy of "Miles in Love" (purchased in advance, based on the idea that I'm collecting a complete set) and discover that while the stories do continue the chronological pattern of the other omnibus editions, that "Memory" has been skipped over. So if I actually want to read them in chronological order, I'm going to have to get that separately and read it before I start on any of the books I've got in front of me.It's not a huge thing, and ultimately the novels are enjoyable so it's not as though I feel short-changed, but it just seems like, halfway through the process of putting together the omnibus editions, they've switched from a logical and helpful system to one that doesn't make sense, for no reason and without explanation. I'll happily buy the missing book separately, but it is nonetheless a bit grating to discover this halfway through reading what I thought was my "complete" collection.
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