FALLING FREE

Book ID/图书代码： 13005504B09714

English Summary/英文概要： LEO GRAF WAS AN EFFECTIVE ENGINEER... Safety Regs weren’t just the rule book he swore by; he’d helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporation exploitation of his bright new students - till that exploitation turned to something much worse. He hadn’t anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe, nor in the rules... Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies - now all he had to do was teach them to be free.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 方胪人的诞生其实是很合乎逻辑的：人类本来就不适合在太空长期居住工作，骨骼钙质的流失与肌肉内脏的松弛在在都说明了几百万年来基因受到重力影响的结果，更不用说在无重力状态下百无一用的双脚了；既然如此，何不用基因工程造出适合太空环境的新人类？不但没有生理上的困扰，连双脚都可以用多一双手来代替。但实际上这个逻辑的、科学的结论却是应用在商业利益上，这些方胪人不过是星际企业拥有的奴隶。不幸的是，新发明重力控制装置的出现，一夜之间让太空工作人力的供应源源不绝，而繁殖与教养这些方胪人相对地变得十分昂贵，一个利益为先的企业会怎幺做？临时到太空站来教授焊接技术的工程师葛雷格又该怎幺做？(RH)

Awards/获奖情况：Falling Free was the first novel by Lois McMaster Bujold I read and I haven’t been able to stop reading her stuff since.

I read the whole of Falling Free in one sitting, not so much on purpose, I just forgot to put the book down. It was originally serialised in a magazine before being collected here, considering that it’s amazing how well the story flows together.

For those not in the know: the story involves genetically enginneered beings designed to work in zero-gravity (they have four arms no legs). That’s about as far as the science-fiction element stretches as the bulk of the novel is beautiful human drama featuring great characterisation and development between all the main characters.

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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