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Set within Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga, the story follows Leo Graf, a disciplined engineer whose routine life is disrupted by a corporate assignment to Cay Habitat. There, he discovers the company’s exploitation of hundreds of children in bioengineering experiments. Determined to act, Graf adopts a thousand mutated children—quaddies—empowering them to break free and challenge the unethical practices of the mega-corporation.
First publish date: 1988
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard Science Fiction
Authors: Lois McMaster Bujold
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