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Λαβύρινθος by Lois McMaster Bujold6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The company treats them as chattel slaves. Legally, the Quaddies are not classed as human but as "post-fetal experimental tissue cultures". They would also be completely beholden to the company for life support and would have no rights as human beings. From the point of view of the commercial interests responsible for their creation, they would be highly profitable laborers, requiring none of the special facilities or mandatory time off needed by other humans, whose bodies tend to deteriorate over the long term in weightlessness. They were intended to be used as a space labor force, superbly adapted to zero-gravity but more or less helpless "downside" in any but the lightest gravitational field. It deals with the creation of the "Quaddies", genetically modified people who have four arms, the second pair appearing where unmodified humans would have legs. The novel is set about 200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of much of the Vorkosigan series. It is included in the 2007 omnibus Miles, Mutants and Microbes. It was first published as four installments in Analog from December 1987 to February 1988, and won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for 1988. ![]() 2014 Prometheus Hall of Fame, 1988 Nebula Award for Best NovelĪnalog, FEB 1988, cover art by Vincent Di Fateįalling Free is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, part of her Vorkosigan Saga. ![]()
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