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Falling Free

Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4

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Falling Free

By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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About this listen

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.

©1988 Lois McMaster Bujold (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Heartfelt Habitat

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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I have read a lot of sci fi but have managed to overlook this author until now. I will be reading her other work as I thoroughly enjoyed the storytelling in this novel.

pleasant surprise

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This is an excellent piece of writing. Drama, tension, suspense. The story is compelling, and the science fiction elements are presented in an excellent manner. I look forward to reading more in the series.

Good Old School Sci FI

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Read the books years ago and really enjoyed them. The audio books are nearly as good - just struggled a bit with the very hard American twang? sharpness? of the audio .. but then I always have. Harsh audio, but still a good story.

Well done for it's time

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I have loved this short novel since first read it a decade ago and thought the performance was excellent. well worth a listen.

A delightful prequel from the VorKosigan saga

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She sure has the knack of writing an engaging story and believable characters. And a sound ethical framework

delightfully engaging

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I forced my way through it because I’m listening to the series a second time. This is a terrible book.

Worst book of the series

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