Lois McMaster Bujold
Hardcover | Pages: 345 pages Rating: 4.07 | 12493 Users | 995 Reviews
Mention Appertaining To Books CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #14)
| Title | : | CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #14) |
| Author | : | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 345 pages |
| Published | : | October 19th 2010 by Baen |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera |
Explanation Supposing Books CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #14)
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!
List Books Conducive To CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #14)
| Original Title: | Cryoburn |
| ISBN: | 1439133948 (ISBN13: 9781439133941) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #14, Vorkosigan Saga (Chronological) #15 |
| Characters: | Armsman Roic, Jin Sato, Miles Vorkosigan |
| Setting: | Kibou-daini |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2010) |
Rating Appertaining To Books CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #14)
Ratings: 4.07 From 12493 Users | 995 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #14)
I keep a stock of 18 new (to me) books to read at any one time - and I'd somehow ended-up with 5 Bujold's amongst them. Normally I try to never have more than 2 by the same author... now that CryoBurn is finished we're down to 3 and I'm following it up with Ethan of Athos which will get me down to 2 :-)Sadly CryoBurn is not the best Miles adventure - its perfectly solid, but doesn't excel in the same way as some others. [proper review to follow]After this I read: Ethan of AthosI can't tell if I would have liked this less or more without having read the rest of the series. On the one hand, the earlier books set the bar awfully high. On the other hand, many of the recurring characters and motifs here would be awfully flat without previous encounters. But is having introduced characters in earlier books really an excuse to leave them flat? Mark and Kareen hardly existed in this book (and weren't really needed plotwise) and Ekaterin might as well have not been mentioned.
This book is a bit of an anomaly. Up until this point, the Vorkosigan Saga taken as a whole had been quite possibly my favorite work of fiction, full-stop. One of its strong points was and is Bujold's fascination with the dramatic process and with character development. Miles' inner life in these books is in a constant state of transformation, and his external life reflects this; some of the best books in the series focus on events in his life which transform him as a character (his creation of
Let me begin with a huge disclaimer: I have not read any other books in the Vorkosigan Saga. And it's all Lois McMaster Bujold's fault.Well, that's not strictly true. It's the fault of her fans for getting Cryoburn nominated for a Hugo Award, which is why I am reading it now. But ultimately it's Bujold's fault for garnering such a huge fanbase. So there. I had intended to start with the first book and work my way through the series at a sedate pace, but circumstances have forced me to do
Bujold doesn't disappoint. I missed this one in my first Bujold phase years back; such a treat to read a new Miles book.
Buddy read with Choko and Evgeny.CryoBurn is the next to last book so far in the series and for most of the time is a return to Miles' galactic adventures, similar to Diplomatic Immunity. He's sent to Kibou-daini to investigate a possible ploy by one of their cryo corporations to make some trouble on Komarr. One of his official tasks is to figure out what they are planning. But in typical Miles' fashion he ends up neck deep in some local troubles and gets roped in in the role of the hero who
It is so good to have a Miles book again! I suspect that some readers will consider this one of the lightweight ones, partly because there is a great deal of the action seen through the eyes of an eleven year old boy (which mostly works, though occasionally he's able to define adults' expressions with the cognizance of someone far more experienced in life), and partly because, though many of the characters are enduring life-threatening and -changing adventures, Miles isn't. The book opens with
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