However, I'm not assertive enough to go ahead and change the title in the Goodreads database.Īs far as introductions to a series go, Cyroburn worked very well. The cover page is no help-for all we know, it's CRYOBURN or cryoburn! I'm going to go ahead and call it Cyroburn, because I'm not a big fan of CamelCase unless it's very very justified. Is it Cryoburn or CryoBurn? The copyright page uses the former Bujold calls it by the latter form. I'm sure that my opinion of Cyroburn will be different once I'm more familiar with the world of Miles Vorkosigan (and yes, I know Miles isn't all the books, or even the first book). 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 otherwise. But ultimately it's Bujold's fault for garnering such a huge fanbase. It's the fault of her fans for getting Cryoburn nominated for a Hugo Award, which is why I am reading it now.
And it's all Lois McMaster Bujold's fault.
Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping-something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn't due to power outages in the Cryocombs.Let me begin with a huge disclaimer: I have not read any other books in the Vorkosigan Saga. 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. 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. 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.
Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove-he's been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. Miles Vorkosigan is back! Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death.
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