The Hugo Award-winning sequel to BROTHERS IN ARMS.
Miles Vorkosigan's renegade clone-brother Mark makes a quixotic attempt to rescue clone-children created for brain transplant on the crime planet of Jackson's Whole. The disaster is compounded when Miles's attempt to salvage the operation goes even more wrong. Mark's attempt to redeem himself and find his brother leads to his own terrifying journey back to his origins.
"Hugo award-winner Bujold creates a tapestry of variegated human societies dispersed throughout a colorful galaxy. She peoples it with introspective but genuine heroes who seize the reader's imagination and intellect."
- Publishers Weekly
"It's obvious by now that the wit, charm and headlong, impetuous genius of Miles Naismith Vorkosigan ... have transformed the stuff of standard military space opera into something far more delicious -- and addictive."
- Locus Magazine
"Bujold continues to prove what marvels genius can create out of basic space operatics."
- Library Journal
"Bujold is not just a master of plot, she is a master of emotion."
- SF Site
"Bujold is one of the best writers of SF adventure to come along in years."
- Locus Magazine
"A superb craftsman and stylist, Ms. Bujold is well on her way to becoming one of the great voices of speculative fiction."
- Rave Reviews
"Bujold has a gift, nearly unique in science fiction, for the comedy of manners."
- Chicago Sun Times
"Superb far-future saga."
- Publishers Weekly on the 'Vorkosigan' series
Bujold's "work remains among the most enjoyable and rewarding in contemporary SF."
- Publishers Weekly
Lois McMaster Bujold was born in 1949, the daughter of an engineering professor at Ohio State University, from whom she picked up her early interest in science fiction. She now lives in Minneapolis, and has two grown children. She began writing with the aim of professional publication in 1982. She wrote three novels in three years; in October of 1985, all three sold to Baen Books, launching her career. Bujold went on to write many other books for Baen, mostly featuring her popular character Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, his family, friends, and enemies. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Her fantasy from Eos includes the award-winning Chalion series and the Sharing Knife series. In 2020, Bujold received the Damon Knight Grand Master Memorial Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. www.dendarii.com
