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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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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.

Accolades & Awards

Nebula Award
1988
Fiction Hard Science Fiction Nebula Award Science Fiction Space Opera Heartfelt
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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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Would you listen to Falling Free again? Why?

I would definitely listen to this again. This series is enthralling and I have already listened to several pars of it more than once.

What about Grover Gardner’s performance did you like?

I love the narrator of these books. He brings it off perfectly.

Vorkosigan Series is EXCELLENT

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It takes a little while to get in to, but great book in the end. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Good book, give it time

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Falling Free is interesting and worth a read if you want the whole Barayar story line, but not as good as her later work. still, it was entertaining.

Not as refined as her later works.

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Like the book Ethen of Athos, this story has little baring on the rest of the Vorkosigan saga, but it is great background on one of the bio-engineered races mentioned in various books of the series. As usual, Grover does a great job with his narration.

nice background story

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes. I liked this book and look forward to reading the next one.

What did you like best about this story?

Strong woman character.

What about Grover Gardner’s performance did you like?

He is competent.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Space thriller!

Any additional comments?

As noted above, looking forward to the next book in the saga.

First in the Series

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