She immediately attracted attention with her first novel, Shards of Honor, which began her popular Vorkosigan series, and quickly followed it up with The Warrior’s Apprentice, which introduced young Miles Vorkosigan, one of the most popular characters ever in science fiction. Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy and has won five Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards, including a Nebula Award for Falling Free, included in Miles, Mutants and Microbes. with that extra spicing of romance.” -Locus an intelligent, well-crafted and thoroughly satisfying blend of adventure, sociopolitical commentary, scientific experiments, and occasional perils. Bujold has always excelled at creating forceful characters and she does it here again.” -Denver Post enormously satisfying.” -Publishers Weekly “Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary and her usual superb character development. “Living breathing characters who inhabit unusual yet believable worlds.” -Jean Auel I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.” -Diana Wynne Jones

I really have seldom enjoyed a book so much.

“It is such a delight to read something by such a good writer, who now seems to be writing at the height of her powers. “Fresh, intriguing, and, as always with Lois McMaster Bujold, superb.” -Robert Jordan Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping-something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn’t due to power outages in the Cryocombs.

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. Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death.

CryoBurn by Lois McMaster Bujold