![]() ![]() ![]() Bujold introduces appealing characters to join familiar ones in exploring the ramifications of a planet-wide culture of postponing death, and her deft and absorbing writing easily corrals the complex plot and softens the blow of a tear-jerking conclusion. Under imperial orders to investigate the shady dealings of the cryo cartels, Miles connects the far-flung pieces and exposes a sneaky plot. Now Jin lives in a building full of squatters running an illegal cryonics clinic. ![]() ![]() Drugged, dazed, and alone, he is taken in by Jin Sato, whose mother was the leader of a cryonics reform movement until being declared mentally ill and involuntarily frozen. Listen Free to Cryoburn audiobook by Lois McMaster Bujold with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS and. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorpan immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprovehe’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. Only five days after arriving on Kibou-daini for a cryonics conference, interplanetary diplomat Miles Vorkosigan narrowly escapes kidnapping. Miles Vorkosigan is back Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. But long-time readers of this series have mostly seen this stuff before, and it was more interesting when Miles wasnt as powerful, self-assured, or confident in his allies. Fans have been clamoring for Hugo winner Bujold to pen a new Vorkosigan Saga novel since 2002's Diplomatic Immunity, and they will not be disappointed by this thoughtful tale. Cryoburn does suffer from a very slow start, a surprising lapse in Bujolds normal pacing, but by 100 pages in I was drawn in by Miless energy vortex again. ![]()
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