Cryoburn
A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
About this listen
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 rewrite 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!
Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, having won five Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Her second novel, The Warrior’s Apprentice, introduced young Miles Vorkosigan, one of the most popular characters in science fiction. The mother of two, she lives in Minneapolis.
Hi-fi sci-fi: listen to more in the Vorkosigan saga.©2010 Lois McMaster Bujold (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic Reviews
“Fans…will not be disappointed by this thoughtful tale…Deft and absorbing writing.” (Publishers Weekly)
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- A. Mills
- 27-03-2024
Everything it should be
Worthy Miles story. Humanity well represented. Miles' characteristic craziness also well represented. Exciting, funny, a few interesting concepts and possible consequences of cryofreezing and longevity lightly explored. A precious and poignant ending. I confidently recommend it.
While I have always felt the voice match between the narrator and Miles is a poor one, I also acknowledge that Gardiner's talent and skill at reading and voicing a wide range of charactors, making them all distinct from eachother plus effectively communicating feeling and mood, is high quality. As Miles has grown older through the Vorkosigan volumes, the match between Miles' voice (no longer a young man) and Grover Gardiner's voice has become less missmatched, IMO, and thus less distracting. He certainly is a talented narrator.
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- Katy
- 17-03-2017
space opera at its finest
about the best and most entertaining sci-fi series ever. all of the awards lois mcmaster has won are so well deserved. another fine instalment that moves you to laughter and tears and leaves you wanting more
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- JeninNY
- 31-08-2022
So good. (spoiler)
Great story, hope to hear more of Gene in the future.
Surprised myself at the end when I realised there were actual tears brought on by those 3 words.
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