DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

Book ID/图书代码： 13005504B09684

English Summary/英文概要： A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy’s Barrayaran military escort. Just the sort of situation that calls for the attention of the Imperial Auditors, Barrayar’s special, high-level trouble-shooters. As luck would have it, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, the empire’s youngest Auditor, just happens to be in the area. Of course, he 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. But when duty calls -- in the voice of Barrayar’s Emperor, Gregor -- Miles has no choice but to answer. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tension, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates. The entire system is in danger and time is running out. Miles Vorkosigan is uncomfortably aware that the downside of being a trouble-shooter comes when the trouble starts shooting back...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 迈尔斯和妻子埃卡特琳乘坐飞船返回贝拉亚老家。途中，迈尔斯收到贝拉亚皇帝格雷格的一个信息盘。原来，一支科玛籍商船队被扣押在遥远的格拉夫站，而且此事还牵扯出一位贝拉亚护卫队安全官的流血失踪事件。迈尔斯虽然心系家中即将降生的由子宫培育器培育的孩子，但作为帝国审计官，除了领命，他别无选择。
迈尔斯赶往格拉夫站，追随线索步步调查。随着案情的深入，迈尔斯发现周遭局势远非表面所见那么简单。接二连三出现的流血冲突、绑架、种族间的紧张对峙……所有矛头直指拥有四只手臂的方胪种族……(RH)

Awards/获奖情况：Miles Vorkosigan returns, married, much to his own and readers’ relief, to Ekaterin, and, indeed, about to become a father. Lord and Lady Vorkosigan’s galactic honeymoon is interrupted, however, by an incident on an orbital habitat in Quaddiespace, home of the four-armed, genetically engineered humans of the Nebula-winning Free Fall. The Barrayarans have been less than diplomatic, and everybody else’s paranoia about them, and theirs about everybody else, are fueling a potentially gruesome situation. Naturally, Miles is called on to untangle several interwoven knots, involving old friends, new friends, enemies of all descriptions, the Cetagandans (of course), and Jackson’s Whole and its you-pay, we-play gene engineers. There are several romances in unexpected places, though Miles and Ekaterin don’t have much time for romancing. In fact, Ekaterin narrowly escapes returning to Barrayar as a widowed single mother! Most of the themes addressed refer to Miles’ galactic past, but faithful followers will keenly anticipate the new Vorkosigans settling into Barrayaran society, and Bujold once again failing to disappoint them.---Roland Green, From Booklist

En route to his home to await the births of his ex-utero children, Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan receives a directive from the emperor: he must travel to Graf Station to investigate the impounding of an allied merchant fleet from Komorra and the seizure of Barrayaran personnel. In the course of his pursuit for the truth, Miles finds mystery, missing persons, attempted murder, and a host of suspects while simultaneously rediscovering the importance of true friends. The latest in Bujold’s popular "Vorkosigan Saga" continues the adventures of one of the genre’s most enterprising and engaging heroes. Recommended for most sf collections, particularly where the series has a following. ---From Library Journal

Adult/High School-While Miles Vorkosigan is on his honeymoon, soldiers from his planet are imprisoned for assault on a space station run by the four-armed Quaddies. He is the only competent representative of Barrayar nearby, and he’s told to go and get them out, but to try to avoid a major diplomatic incident. Along the way, Miles runs into an old flame who happens to be helping the Quaddies run their space station; an agent of Barrayar is missing in a place where people with only two arms stick out like a sore thumb; and the planet’s enemy seems involved as well. Bujold deftly mixes mystery and espionage into her usual well-developed plot as Miles tries desperately to solve the problem and get back to his wife. Extremely intelligent and manically energetic, Miles is one of the most enjoyable characters in science fiction. Bujold’s fans will remember the Quaddies from Falling Free (1988) and will enjoy the continuation of Miles and Ekaterin’s relationship from A Civil Campaign (2000, both Baen), but a chronology gets new readers up to speed. This quick read has an abundance of plot twists to keep teens glued to the pages. The author gets the technical details right, but keeps explanations to a minimum, so this book should appeal to even non-SF readers who like a fast pace.---Paul Brink, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA, From School Library Journal

About the Author/作者介绍： 洛伊斯•麦克马斯特•比约德，1949年生于美国俄亥俄州，是迄今为止获奖最多的女性科幻作家。
比约德从小便喜爱阅读，受父亲的影响开始看科幻小说。中学时代初尝写作但仅为自娱。成家之后，迫于生计，以及在作家好友的鼓励下，才真正踏上专业写作之途。
1986年以《Shards of Honor》名声鹊起，以此作衍生出极受欢迎的招牌系列《Vorkosigan Saga》。她的创作迭获佳评与奖项肯定，包括三度星云奖、五度雨果奖。此外，作品也经常在《轨迹》杂志举办的最佳年度小说票选榜上名列前茅。近年又新开奇幻小说《五神传说》等系列，再度大放光彩。育有一对子女，现居美国明尼苏达州。
Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science fiction world in 1986 with the first of the Miles Vorkosigan Saga novels, Shards of Honor. She has won the Hugo award four times, and the Nebula award twice.Her short story, Labyrinth won first place in Analog Magazine’s annual awards.Having already created a classic hero in the form of Miles Vorkosigan, and captured a cult following the process, Lois McMaster Bujold now takes up her prolific pen to produce an epic of the most fantastic magnitude. A brilliant and detailed landscape populated with illustrious and demonic characters, ushers the arrival of a hero for the twenty-first century.

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