The downside of being a high-level troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms.
But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Miles, as imperial auditor, has no choice but to answer. 1 Part of the Vorkosigan Saga, it was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2011, 2 as Bujolds ninth Best Novel nomination. Lord Miles Vorkosigan and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. Cryoburn is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in October 2010. A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station in distant Quaddiespace after a bloody incident involving the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science fiction world in 1986 with the first of the Vorkosigan Saga novels, Shards of Honor, closely followed by The Warriors Apprentice, which introduced Miles Vorkosigan, the hyperkinetic military genius with bones of glass.
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