3.5 stars Read in November 2009 as part of the Miles, Mystery & Mayhem omnibus edition. Miles is completely absent from this Vorkosigan series installment. Elli Quinn returns, with a new face and a new mission. The story is told mostly from the point-of-view of Ethan. Again, the theme swirls aro...
[These notes were made in 1989:]. Remind me to try to hunt down some more sci-fi by this lady. Not that this tale is spectacularly well-written - the tone is rather self-consciously flip at times - but the incident-filled plot is fairly well-handled, and the characters are attractive enough, with o...
Athos is a strange all-male colony founded by misogynists. When their replication technology wears out, naive young Ethan is selected to venture out into the big, bad world to buy new genetic material. He gets inadvertently involved in a plot involving intergalactic smuggling, spies, psychics, et a...
Rating: 4* of fiveThe Book Report: Athos is a terraformed planet settled about 200 years before this book takes place by a rigidly religious sect of men who refused to have any females on their planet, as they'd only cause trouble and lead men astray. To replace and grow the population, they do the ...
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