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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. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. Safety Regs weren’t just the rule book he swore by; he’d helped write them. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was to teach welding to a secretly produced batch of humanoid workers genetically engineered with two additional arms instead of legs to be ideally suited to 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? Leo 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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"The quaddie origin story! I read this while on a plane, which was rather appropriate--never have I been so simultaneously conscious of gravity and of being offplanet. I think Bujold could have made a great novel out of this, but she did make a thoroughly enjoyable one. "
— Elizabeth (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Superb…Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.”
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“Bujold’s best work in my opinion.”
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“Grover Gardner brings to Bujold’s work…an abiding ability to deliver a narration which communicates the emotional aspects of both the overall tale and the individual characters…Blackstone and Gardner have given Bujold’s favored book, along with the others in her Vokosigan series, high-quality treatment.”
— SoundCommentary.com (starred review) -
“I’ve never been a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy stuff, but from the very first book in this series I was hooked. The characters grow and mature and take on wonderful shadings and subtleties. The dialogue is priceless and [Bujold] never misses an opportunity to mingle wry humor with taut action and a sprinkling of philosophical commentary.”
— Grover Gardner
Awards
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A 2010 SoundCommentary.com’s The Best of the Best
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Winner of the 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novel
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Finalist for the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Winner of the 2014 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Falling Free Listener Reviews
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" A good book for those who like hard sci-fi. There's a lot of welding. "
— Katie, 5/16/2011 -
" While Falling Free has many of the strengths of the Vorkosigan saga, it's missing actual Vorkosigans and therefore doesn't really pack the same punch. It's entertaining enough, if a trifle obvious. I am getting mildly creeped out by Bujold's consistent young woman/older man pairings, though. "
— Jeremy, 3/26/2011 -
" Preludio ad un ampio ciclo ascrivibile alla space opera, Gravità zero affronta il tema dell’ingegneria genetica e dei diritti umani in un contesto fantascientifico ad alta tecnologia. Buono, non un capolavoro ma di piacevole lettura "
— Zeruhur, 2/9/2011 -
" Honestly, I couldn't read past the second chapter. I just had no interest in this one. The rest of the Vorkosigan saga is great, and should be experienced, but give this a miss. "
— Nick, 1/1/2011 -
" Leo rettet junge Gruppe von Quaddies. "
— Tjhei, 12/19/2010 -
" This book is set in the same universe as the Miles Vorkosigan books, but about 300 years earlier. It is a fantastic novel in its own right and a detailed exploration of the interaction between genes and destiny and human nature. Fantastic stuff! "
— Elizabby, 12/12/2010 -
" One of the best unlikely heroes ever. <br/>If Leo Graf were a real person, I would marry him. <br/>Also one of the best civil rights novels I have ever read. "
— Anita, 12/1/2010 -
" I liked it quite abit, more for the social issues than the science. "
— Lois, 10/13/2010 -
" My first Bujold. Everyone remembers their first Bujold. "
— Arlene, 8/11/2010 -
" It's not Miles, but despite a few minor plot/character flaws, it's the next best thing. "
— Victoria, 8/10/2010 -
" It's the story of some genetically-engineered humans with arms where their legs should be, and the corporation that treats them like disposable property. They, of course, have an inevitable fight for freedom, which is kind of fun, but fairly predictable. "
— Jon, 8/10/2010 -
" An easy and very enjoyable read. Classic Sci/Fi(engineering). "
— Charles, 5/25/2010 -
" A short but entertaining adventure. A good chunk of the fun is seeing how Leo's going to engineer his way out of yet another mess. Not deep, but still quite good. "
— Eric, 4/26/2010
About Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. In 2019 she was named a Damon Knight Grand Master by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, one of science fiction’s highest honors. She has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award for her significant contribution to science fiction. Hugo awards for Best Series were received by the Vorkosigan Saga in 2017, and the World of the Five Gods in 2018.
About Grover Gardner
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.