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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 re-write 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!

“Fresh, intriguing, and, as always with Lois McMaster Bujold, superb.” —Robert Jordan

“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. . . . I really have seldom enjoyed a book so much . . . I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.” —Diana Wynne Jones

“Living breathing characters who inhabit unusual yet believable worlds.” —Jean Auel

“Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary and her usual superb character development . . . enormously satisfying.” —Publishers Weekly

“One of sf’s outstanding talents . . . an outstanding series.” —Booklist

“Excellently done . . . Bujold has always excelled at creating forceful characters and she does it here again.” —Denver Post

“. . . an intelligent, well-crafted and thoroughly satisfying blend of adventure, sociopolitical commentary, scientific experiments, and occasional perils . . . with that extra spicing of romance. . . .” —Locus

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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. Only five days after arriving on Kibou-daini for a cryonics conference, interplanetary diplomat Miles Vorkosigan narrowly escapes kidnapping. 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. Now Jin lives in a building full of squatters running an illegal cryonics clinic. Under imperial orders to investigate the shady dealings of the cryo cartels, Miles connects the far-flung pieces and exposes a sneaky plot. 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. (Nov.) (c)
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A science fiction and fantasy legend, Lois McMaster Bujold has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Her Miles Vorkosigan saga is a massively popular science fiction mainstay. Her many New York Times bestsellers include series entries Cryoburn, Diplomatic Immunity, and Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance. In 2020, Ms. Bujold was named the 36th Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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A must.

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2010

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This is the umpteenth Vorkosigan Saga novel, long salivated after by all right and proper fans (whose ranks do include me, as fair warning), and like all books in the series it functions as a stand-alone and even would serve as a decent introduction to the series. It's not the best introduction, but anyone who comes to the series through this novel will have no trouble keeping up with the plot here and will also not be spoiled on any major events from earlier on, except for Mirror Dance (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures) -- but to be fair, just knowing that the series continues is a spoiler for Mirror Dance.

What makes the Vorkosigan Saga unique in my experience (and if there are any other series that share this quality, please, let me know!) is that it is a very long-running series where each book does stand-alone yet which carries the same set of characters throughout (with the occasional addition or subtraction) and in which the characters undergo fundamental change throughout, significant, life-altering experiences that can't be brushed off or reset in the next volume. The best volumes in the series are, in fact, those that deal with those life-altering experiences.

Cryoburn does not fall into that category. Instead, it falls into the slightly-less-satisfying but still exceptional category of Vorkosigan Saga novels that use the science fiction setting to explore the effect of technological innovation on human society. Unlike many science fiction writers, Bujold has little interest in the physics of her universe; she hand-waved some wormhole-aided space travel technology and then never gave it another thought. The technology Bujold is interested in exploring is the technology of life and death. Many of her novels explore what strange subcultures we might create given a workable uterine replicator ( Falling Free (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures) , Ethan of Athos , and Cetaganda (Vorkosigan Adventure) leap to mind, and the technology is important in nearly all of the others); this novel explores in depth what strange distortions the cryochamber (a technology that allows freezing and reliable reviving of humans near -- or recently -- dead) might work through society.

I don't think Bujold gets enough credit for how science fiction -y her novels are. Not hard SF -- we get no lovingly technical infodumps of any of these technologies -- but true soft SF of the sort Ursula LeGuin writes, extrapolating futures frightening for how very human they are. I believe, in every Bujold novel, in the way her societies have been distorted. But unlike much thoughtful soft SF, Bujold always bears in mind that she is writing an entertaining story first. I suspect this is why it's easy for people to brush her off. There is nothing didactic about her writing, and the social extrapolation is always either essential to the plot (in which case you can look at it as purely plot-related) or done in small little asides that, if you are racing to get to the end, are very easy to overlook. She also takes time to make the reader laugh, often -- something I wish far more science fiction authors would do.

So Cryoburn works in both those ways. Like many a Miles novel before it, it's a fast-paced adventure wherein Miles happens to people, and their lives (and worlds) are skewed in his wake. Like recent Miles novels, Cryoburn very much benefits from having two POV characters besides Miles; these POVs let us see more of the human cost of his manic forward momentum. One of the alternate POVs, a young boy named Jin, is very well-done and makes this the first Vorkosigan novel since The Warrior's Apprentice that is fundamentally YA-friendly. (The other POV is Armsman Roic, who though wonderful in the novella " Winterfair Gifts [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction) " is used mainly for plot-advancement here.) And like all Vorkosigan Saga novels, everything comes together in a hectic (but never confusing) climax with Miles the victor.

But after that satisfying (though not world-shattering) climax comes the denouement, which was telegraphed from page one (and which Bujold has repeatedly told readers was next for the series) and which I had been dreading from the moment I heard this book was going to be published. And it feels. . . strange. It left me off-balance, and while I'm sure it was supposed to leave me off-balance I can't help but wonder if Bujold just chickened out. The Aftermaths section (a perfectly pitched call-back to the first Vorkosigan novel, Shards of Honor ) was delicate, and so very right (it's a set of five drabbles), but. . . it will likely leave any new readers confused and cold, and to longtime fans it feels like the only "To be continued" of the series, because it screams for elaboration.

On the other hand, it does work, intellectually, as a cap for a series that has produced three Hugo-winning novels, one Nebula-winning novel, and a number of Hugo- and Nebula-winning short stories and novellas. So it is entirely possible that I am left unsatisfied simply because it's over. Again.

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This is the latest installment of the Vorkosigan saga, stretching back across three generations, easing up on a fourth. For those who've never met Miles Vorkosigan, he's one of the more memorable characters from an author who is no mean slouch at crafting them. Several years have passed since his last appearance in a book. Miles has achieved a measure of success in his life in a fashion he could never have imagined. With a wife, a family, and a career as one of the most trusted and important officials of his foster brother Gregor, the Emperor of Barrayar, Miles has come a long way from the damaged, stunted youth determined to prove to all his worth against all odds. Not that he is entirely grown up yet......

Now as an Imperial Auditor, Miles is forever and anon dispatched by Gregor to deal with the vexing, intricate, confounding matters that come up in the course of running a three planet empire. His latest assignment has taken him to Kibou-daini, a world which has made cryofreezing technology into a cultural obsession. Accidents, incurable disease, old age - the population of the world lives as best it can and when it can't, they get frozen until some kind of cure becomes available. As a survivor of cryofreezing himself, Miles is just the man for the job of checking out the technology and the corporations that control it as they seek to expand into the Barrayarran sphere of influence.

The story begins with Miles scrambling through the darkness of an underground maze after escaping a botched attempt by terrorists to kidnap visiting galactics who've all been invited to a conference about the cryofreezing services offered on Kibou-daini. Dazed, suffering aftereffects of what was meant to be a sedative, Miles finds himself seeking sanctuary in the underbelly of Kibou-daini - and that's when he begins to unravel the darker truths behind the smooth facades and the sales pitches. From there on the story takes off as Miles shows that neither marriage or high office has lessened his ability to generate chaos around him as he proceeds relentlessly towards his goal - even if he can't be sure quite what it is from moment to moment.

If "A Civil Campaign" was about sex, marriage, and manners and "Diplomatic Immunity" was about children, parenting, and the chain of life from generation to generation, "Cryoburn" is about death. What does it mean when the dead... aren't dead but frozen? Who speaks for them? What happens when people live their lives expecting to die... and then be revived again someday? What happens to a society when its members are strung out across time in disconnected fashion? What happens as other technologies come along to extend life?

Bujold weaves it all together in a tale that invents one of the more subtle forms of galactic conquest as a subplot, while devising a nastier main story about greed, scandal, and treachery. There are no exploding spaceships, no superweapons, no invading armies, but the tale is entertaining none the less. And then in Aftermaths, Bujold presents five drabbles - five stories of exactly one hundred words - of masterful craftsmanship and devastating impact. This is a must-read for any fan of the Vorkosigan saga.

Extra Bonus: A CD-ROM bundled with the book contains much bonus material, including other books from the Vorkosigan saga in electronic form, artwork, interviews, and more.

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Sad but lovely

Reviewed in Australia on January 24, 2021

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I started reading this Vorkosigan saga book with trepidation. My friend who got me into the books disliked it and even went as far as saying I shouldn’t bother at all. But, luckily, I really enjoyed it.

The book introduces a new planet and society to the Vor universe and I quite liked this idea. I probably wouldn’t have coped with another visit to Cetaganda. With the locals of the new planet being unaware of Miles’s status and wealth, it gave LMB the chance to include lots of comedy and it’s worth the read for that aspect alone. His batman-cum-bodyguard, Roic, makes a great straight man for all the jokes. I even wondered if LMB named Roic to deliberately rhyme with stoic (although, I guess I’m probably pronouncing Roic incorrectly).

There are a couple of new characters, my favourite being Consul Vorlynkin, who was usually the only one other than Roic understanding Miles’s clout and inside jokes. There’s also two children who, again, added some great comic relief, especially when their menagerie of animals came into it. The only established characters used, other than Roic, were Miles’s brother Mark and his partner, Kareen. I’m still not a huge fan of Mark and LMB doesn’t do too much to make him more sympathetic here either (although I appreciate she tries to explain his issues).

The plot surrounds the political, ethical and monetary dilemmas involved when a person seeks to extend their mortality. The planet’s peoples become so obsessed with the process of cryo freeze and revival that the cyro corporations become big business. The system, of course, is rife for corruption, which is why Miles starts investigating.

I thought the first few chapters of the book were brilliant. Miles was lost in what is basically a cavern of frozen bodies. Not only did I find this incredibly creepy, his subsequent need to survive alone on the streets of the unfamiliar made great reading.

The ‘we all must die’ theme pretty much runs throughout the whole book. It’s an ironic argument a lot of the time as Miles has, of course, already gone through a cryofreeze and revival. I think it has probably been done better in scifi but LMB still gets the reader thinking. I imagine LMB was also taking aim at the big pharmaceutical and insurance companies and their monopoly in the US in particular.

I do get why other readers didn’t enjoy this book as much as the others. There’s not as much action as some would probably prefer and when there was some tension added, it was wrapped up pretty quickly. I’m one of the few who like ‘Lord Auditor’ Miles more than ‘Admiral Naismith’ though. I did, however, shave off half a star as the cryo corporations and their internal politics and machinations were a little confusing at times.

Despite its content, I loved the ending of the book. I thought it was really well done and loved that LMB wrote it in drabble form. Of course I did shed a tear but, ultimately, Gregor’s reaction especially made me feel uplifted in a way, instead of depressed.

4 1/2 out of 5

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Good, but not as good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2011

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I quite enjoyed this latest episode in the Vorkosigen saga, but don't think it met the standards of the earlier books in the sequence. In particular, I found the sentimentality that seems to have crept into the books of late irritating (especially surrounding children who don't interest me in the least as characters).

Having reread much of the sequence recently, I thought the books featuring the Dendari and the stories/action surrounding them were much more interesting (as well as characters such as Aral, Ivan, Gregor, Galeni and Bothari). Miles seems to have become a tad less of a draw since his marriage. Perhaps a good tack to take in the next story would be for his wife to die...

I hear that the next Vorkosigen book will centre on Ivan - pray to God it's not yet another soppy romance. I like my SF more in the line of Shards of Honour, Barrayar, The Warrior's Apprentice, The Vor Game, Mirror Dance and even the sublime short story Falling Free. They had the emotional and humorous content, but also the strong, well-written action that kept me gripped throughout, so that I didn't want to put the books down. Some space-based action, which also featured in many of the previous novels, also appeals.

I feel this outing would have been better as a short story rather than a full-length book, and could have done without the CD in exchange for a stronger novel. The very final, harrowing episode was the only bit that really had the strength of events in the best of the previous novels - I can't believe it. Perhaps it's not true and it hasn't really happened, but has been fabricated in order to defeat some plot or other?

I love Miles and his world and am delighted to see him back - but please, Ms Bujold, let's have more in the line of the best of the previous books. I don't mind long books, with more substance.

Update 2019: I've reread the whole sequence again, including this title. While I agree with myself on most of the above, I did enjoy it now more than when I first read it. Perhaps my disappointment centred around the very end of the story, which affected how I saw the book as a whole? And I'm not too keen on the introduction of children into the Miles books. I thought Roic had really developed since he was such a raw recruit in Diplomatic Immunity, and Miles's 'forward momentum' seemed to be intact. Good to see Raven as well, and to be reminded about the sublime earlier books.

I don't understand the premise behind cryorevival, though. What do people come back to, and what is the business about 'votes'? And it would have been good to see what happened to the corporations on Komar, and how they got their 'just desserts'.

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A strange, strong and uplifting book about mortality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2016

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Kibou-daini is an obscure planet in a remote corner of the wormhole nexus, but one with a specialisation in cryogenic freezing and revival as a means of cheating death. With the planet planning to expand to Komarr, the Barrayaran Empire decides to take a closer look. This means sending in Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan. Unfortunately things go wrong almost as soon as Miles arrives. Left lost and injured in a maze of cryo-tombs that extends for kilometres, Miles needs to call upon every ounce of his resourcefulness to survive.

Cryoburn is the most recent Vorkosigan Saga novel to focus on the series' erstwhile central figure of Miles Vorkosigan. The two more recent books (Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, published later although set earlier than Cryoburn, and Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen) have focused on other characters with Miles playing a much-reduced role. So this is the last ride, maybe for a while, we get to have with Miles encountering a problem and sorting it out in his own, inimitable style.

Cryoburn is satisfying on that level, but it also sees Bujold flexing her writing skills. A lot of the book is told from the point-of-view of an 11-year-old boy, Jin, whom Miles encounters on his travels. Given the labyrinth plotting, conspiracies and feints of the average Vorkosigan book, having it filtered through the understanding of a child is challenging but Bujold pulls it off to deliver something fresh, giving us a new perspective on Miles and his world (and makes me think that a YA-focused Vorkosigan novel could actually be a very interesting read). However, the book also give us something more evolutionary and adult as well. This book is set seven years after Miles's previous adventure in Diplomatic Immunity and he is now approaching forty. He has matured a lot in that time, becoming a father several times over and is now less manic, less prone to blundering straight into situations and is more thoughtful and analytical. This is all relative to his former self, of course, and he remains the same character, but an older, more seasoned and more wary one.

Indeed, Cryoburn feels like a musing on the passing of generations, with Jin representing a new generation of children growing up in a more peaceful period of nexus history and Miles spending chunks of the book analysing his father's and grandfather's lives and what they went through. The book's musings on death, mortality and legacy also feed into this, but Bujold expertly avoids making this a maudlin or depressing book. Quite the reverse, the notion of mortality and the precious commodities of life and time are joyously celebrated...right up to the final, startling moments of the novel, which may rank among Bujold's finest-ever pieces of writing.

Cryoburn, an upbeat and uplifting book about death, is one of the stranger but stronger books in the series (****½). It is available now in the UK and USA.

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Vorkosigam: A daunting challenge worthy of the saga

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Another epic challenge and potentially high impact puzzle, wrapped in dilemma, shrouded in mystery. The now polished and suave Miles is knocked around in another adventure. It is rough enough to evoke sympathy and admiration in equal measure. Bujold's polished and tight writing is a joy. Her vision of the ethical consequences and big political impacts of small things is impressive. Tech in her world is a very human story, and her rich cast of characters must wrestle with more subtle enemies than almost any other writer can imagine. Her applied intelligence and her characters are amazing.

In aid to Bujold's many admirers, who may have missed a golden nugget here and there, due to a morass of editions-and-omnibuses, and increasing rarity despite a recent turn to kindle, here is a guide to the whole Vorkosigan saga:

-Falling Free (Novella: Stand alone but gives context to 'Diplomatic Immunity' and is also published in the unsequenced Omnibus 6: 'Miles, Mutants and Microbes'. 832 pages)
-Shards of Honor (Omnibus 1)
-Barrayar (Omnibus 1: 'Cordelia's Honor'. 596 pages)
-The Warrior’s Apprentice (Omnibus 2)
-The Mountains of Mourning (Omnibus 2)
-Weatherman (only found with Omnibus 2 and the Vor Game)
-The Vor Game (Omnibus 2: Young Miles. 838 pages)
-Cetaganda (Omnibus 3)
-Ethan of Athos (Omnibus 3)
-Borders of Infinity (Omnibus 4 and is also in the two non sequential Omnibuses 6 ‘ Borders of Infinity’ and 7 -‘Miles Mutants and Microbes’)
-Labyrinth (Omnibus 3: Miles, Mystery and Mayhem. 556 pages – and unsequenced Omnibus 6)
-Brothers in Arms (Omnibus 4)
-Mirror Dance (Omnibus 4: Miles Errant. 741 pages)
-Memory (462 pages)
-Komarr (Omnibus 5)
-A Civil campaign (Omnibus 5)
-Diplomatic Immunity (unsequenced Omnibus 6: Miles, Mutants and Microbes. Alone 283 pages)
-Winterfair gifts (Omnibus 5: Miles in Love. 862 pages)
-Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance (432 pages)
-Cryoburn (339 pages)
-Gentleman Jole and the red queen (528 pages)

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Großartiger neuer Teil der Serie

Reviewed in Germany on October 16, 2010

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Miles ist zusammen mit seinem Armsman Roic auf dem Planeten Kibou-daini im Einsatz als Imperialer Auditor. Auf Kibou-daini ist man davon besessen, dem Tod ein Schnippchen zu schlagen. Beinahe die gesamte Bevölkerung des Planeten lässt sich mittels cryotechnischer Verfahren einfrieren und wartet darauf, in einer besseren Zukunft wieder aufgetaut zu werden. Einer der Cryo-Großkonzerne will eine Filiale auf Komarr eröffnen und Miles soll nun herausfinden, ob dabei alles mit rechten Dingen zugeht. Kaum auf dem Planeten angekommen, sticht Miles in ein Wespennest. Nicht alle sind mit den Großkonzernen und deren Politik zufrieden und schwelender Widerstand regt sich. Miles stolpert schnell über Rebellen, korrupte Konzernchefs, eigenwillige Wissenschaftler und den jungen Jin, der ein großes Geheimnis hütet, und die Ereignisse mit Miles in ihrem Zentrum überschlagen sich wieder einmal.

Ich weiß schon gar nicht mehr, wie lange ich auf dieses Buch gewartet habe, und zu meiner absoluten Begeisterung konnte mich CRYOBURN vollauf überzeugen. Lois McMaster Bujold hat wieder einmal voll ins Schwarze getroffen.
In CRYOBURN läuft Miles erneut zur Höchstform auf. Auf Kibou-daini präsentiert sich unserem Helden ein sehr undurchsichtiges und verstricktes Bild und Miles wäre nicht Miles, wenn er diese schwierige Lage mehr oder weniger aus Versehen nicht noch weiter verkomplizieren würde, bevor er eine Lösung findet. Die Spannung kommt in CRYOBURN auf gar keinen Fall zu kurz, obwohl sich der Actionanteil doch eher in Grenzen hält.
Besonders angetan war ich von den Beschreibungen Kibou-dainis und der Gesellschaft des Planeten. Lois McMaster Bujold hat hier wieder eine stimmige und vor allem interessante Welt erschaffen, die nahtlos in ihren Weltenentwurf passt.
Miles ist wie immer eine großartige Hauptfigur. Alles in allem gesehen ist er vielleicht etwas besonnener geworden, steckt er mitten in einem seiner Pläne ist er jedoch wie immer kaum aufzuhalten. In CRYOBURN wird auch aus der Perspektive von Roic und Jin erzählt, was mir gut gefallen hat. Ich fand es vor allem interessant, wie Miles aus ihrer Sicht erscheint und wie er auf sie wirkt. Dabei kommt es immer wieder zu einigen sehr amüsanten Momenten. Insgesamt konnten mich eigentlich die ganzen Figuren in CRYOBURN überzeugen und sie waren mir alle sympathisch.
In CRYOBURN erfahren wir nicht allzu viel über Miles' Freunde und Familie in Barrayar, da sich die Handlung in erster Linie auf die Ermittlungen auf Kibou-daini konzentriert, einige wichtige Infos bekommt man trotzdem. Das Ende von CRYOBURN bietet eine große Überraschung für Miles und ich muss sagen, dass es mich etwas traurig gemacht hat.
Mit dem Roman bekommt man außerdem eine Gratis-CD-Rom, die sämtliche Vorkosigan-Romane zum kostenlosen Download sowie zahlreiche Extras (Interviews mit Lois McMaster Bujold, Essays, weiterführende Links, etc.) enthält.

Lois McMaster Bujold hat mit CRYOBURN wieder ein fantastisches Buch geschrieben und ich hoffe, dass es noch viele Romane in der Vorkosigan-Saga geben wird. Einfach großartig!

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