Falling Free
The Miles Vorkosigan Adventures: Book #1988
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Description
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what’s wrong, and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. Safety Regs weren’t just the rule book he swore by; he’d helped write them. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was to teach welding to a secretly produced batch of humanoid workers genetically engineered with two additional arms instead of legs to be ideally suited to working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation? Leo hadn’t anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe nor in the rules.
Leo adopted a thousand quaddies. Now all he had to do was teach them to be free.
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The Miles Vorkosigan Adventures Series

The Vor Game
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with expectations of ship command, so he is disappointed with the assignment of meteorologist to an arctic training camp. But his tenure in the snow-covered north is cut short when he narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits.
Miles is... Read more »
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Memory
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that’s what Miles Vorkosigan thinks, and he should know, having done both once already.
Thanks to his quick-thinking staff and incredible artistry from a medical specialist, Miles’ first death won’t be his last. But it does take some recovery, a fact he has been reluctant to admit. When he... Read more »
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A Civil Campaign
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 18 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem that all his new power can’t solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in... Read more »
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Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan returns to the planet that changed her destiny in a new novel by multiple New York Times bestselling author Lois McMaster Bujold.Future imperfectThree years after her famous husband’s death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, admiral,... Read more »
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The Warrior's Apprentice
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Miles Vorkosigan makes his debut in this frenetic coming-of-age tale. At age seventeen, Miles is allowed to take the entrance exams to the elite military academy; he passes the written but manages, through miscalculation in a moment of anger, to break both his legs on the obstacle course, washing out before he begins. His aged grandfather dies... Read more »
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Ethan of Athos
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in Bujold’s Vorkosigan universe, this independent novel follows a doctor as he braces himself for his first encounter with that most alien of aliens—a female of his own species.
Dr. Ethan Urquhart is chief of biology at a District Reproduction Center. He delivers babies from uterine replicators. You see, on Athos there are no women. In fact,... Read more »
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Falling Free
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what’s wrong, and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. Safety Regs weren’t just the rule book he swore by; he’d helped write them. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was to teach... Read more »
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Borders of Infinity
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The popular adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, a clever and outlandish science fiction hero for the modern era, continue in these three tales. In “The Mountains of Mourning,” Miles is dispatched to a backcountry region of Barrayar, where he must act as detective, judge, and executioner in a controversial murder case.
In “Labyrinth,” Miles adopts his... Read more »
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Brothers in Arms
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Led by Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan), the Dendarii mercenaries have pulled off the daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp. But they have made some deadly enemies. Having finally outrun the infuriated Cetagandans, the Dendarii arrive on Earth for battle, shuttle repair, and a well deserved rest.
But Miles... Read more »
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Mirror Dance
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The dwarfish, fetally damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii... Read more »
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Cetaganda
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Komarr
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years’ work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why.
The choice... Read more »
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Diplomatic Immunity
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station in distant Quaddiespace after a bloody incident involving the convoy’s Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan 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... Read more »
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Winterfair Gifts
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This Hugo-nominated novella adds a delightful extra chapter to Bujold’s Vorkosigan series, describing the wedding of Miles and Ekaterin and events leading up to it.
In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan is making elaborate preparations for his wedding. The long-awaited event stirs up romance and... Read more »
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Cryoburn
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove—he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp—an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown... Read more »
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Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor’s life as a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Cousin to imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far... Read more »
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