Cetaganda
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Lois McMaster Bujold. (2006). Cetaganda. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Lois McMaster Bujold. 2006. Cetaganda. Blackstone Publishing.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda. Blackstone Publishing, 2006.

Lois McMaster Bujold. Cetaganda. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2006.

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     Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. In 2019 she was named a Damon Knight Grand Master by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, one of science fiction's highest honors. She has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award for her significant contribution to science fiction. Hugo awards for Best Series were received by the Vorkosigan Saga in 2017, and the World of the Five Gods in 2018.

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When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arriving, the two men are inexplicably attacked by a servant of the late empress. When the same servant turns up dead the next day, Miles and Ivan find themselves caught in the middle of a mystery.

Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated, and deceptively alien culture, while lascivious Ivan manages to get himself involved with several noble females at the same time, a diplomatic no-no of the first order. As the plot thickens, it becomes clear that it's up to Miles to save the empire.

With her usual skill, Bujold addresses timeless issues of human identity through the personal dramas of her characters.

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     January 1, 1996
     The power to engineer a civilization's genetic destiny fosters new variations on old struggles for political power in this entertaining space-operatic entry in Bujold's long-running Vorkosigan saga. Miles Vorkosigan, hero of Mirror Dance (winner of the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novel), is on a diplomatic mission to represent his home planet at the funeral of the dowager empress of the Cetaganda empire when an encounter with an assailant leaves him with a piece of computer software. This proves to be a bogus duplicate of a key to the Cetagandan genome, which each new empress manipulates to produce offspring. With the help of a member of Cetaganda's matriarchal ruling haut, Miles and his cousin Ivan dodge inventive assassination attempts to determine which of the empire's eight governors has tried to pin this ``theft'' on them in the hope of usurping control of the genome. With her usual skill, Bujold addresses timeless issues of human identity through the personal dramas of her characters, most notably Miles, a deformed mutant whose insecurities afford him insight but sometimes obstruct his investigations. Set in a vividly realized world where Machiavellian intrigues are played out behind a facade of aristocratic discretion, this novel, like its predecessors, blends high adventure with wry commentary on the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between human ideals and political realities.

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   • content: In this continuation of the Barrayar series, the diminutive, fragile Prince Miles Vorkosigan is sent with his feckless cousin, Ivan, on a mission to a former enemy, the empire of Cetaganda. They immediately encounter a conspiracy to promote interstellar war. As in other Bujold presentations by Reader's Chair, a male reader reads the male parts, and a woman the female. Both carry it off adequately, though the slow-speaking Michael Hanson has a lot more to do because he carries most of the narration. Bujold is one of the most respected sci-fi writers. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

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With her usual skill, Bujold addresses timeless issues of human identity through the personal dramas of her characters.

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1. • source: World Science Fiction Society
   • value: Hugo Award
2. • source: Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine
   • value: Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner

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