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Proto Zoa
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Publisher's Summary
A delightful collection of Lois McMaster Bujold's early stories and a comprehensive introduction by this New York Times best-selling author.
Protozoa is a word from biology via the Greek, meaning "first animals". These short stories were indeed among the first life spontaneously generated in Lois McMaster Bujold's nascent writing career. Along with an introduction by the author, this collection features the short stories "Barter", "Garage Sale", "The Hole Truth", "Dreamweaver's Dilemma", and "Aftermaths".
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- IreneMBBT
- 07-23-20
5 good shorts
An excellent compilation of short stories by LMB prefaced by her comments.
>Chapter 1: Author Comments
>Chapter 2: Barter
Mary Alice is cooking pancakes on Saturday morning for her family when she opens the front door to an alien. This is my personal favorite and makes me laugh outright.
>Chapter 3: Garage Sale
Harold Krieger has issues with a demanding neighbor who harangues about grass cutting, painting, cats, pigeons, etc. He decides to hold a garage sale - at her house. This one has me laughing with varying degrees of horror at points.
>Chapter 4: The Whole Truth
What do you do when a pothole keeps getting bigger? This is a riff humorously taken to the absurd. Neighbor Harold Krieger makes a guest appearance
>Chapters 5-6: Dreamweavers Dilemma:
Anias is an artist with a past due contract deadline to create a daydream for commercial distribution. Things are not so straightforward when she accepts a lucrative private contract to create an almost nightmare.
Chalmas Dubauer, ancestor to Ensign Dubauer of Shards of Honor, makes an appearance. He’s a retired pilot who calls himself an Exile in time, having spent 25 yrs each way traveling to and from Earth to Beta Colony, pre wormhole jump technology.
>Chapter 7: Aftermaths: This was eventually added to the end of Shards of Honor as an epilogue.
I wonder how many times I’ve mentioned that Grover Gardner is a wonderful narrator?
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- Michael
- 07-21-16
Three Weak, One Repeat, One Very Good Short Story
These are very early, mostly note previously published, short stories. Most are better than average short stories, but that is not saying a lot as the vast majority of short stories are very weak. "Barter", "Garage Sale", "The Hole Truth" are short stories with rather weak, slightly humorous Twilight Zone endings. These were all previously unpublished, for good reasons. "Dreamweaver's Dilemma" is a very good short story, and was Bujold’s first published work. It is set in the Vorkosigan universe with interesting characters and a pleasant little mystery. "Aftermaths" was previously published in Cryoburn and is an excellent short story, but all Vorkosigan readers will have read this before. Nevertheless, it was pleasant to hear this again.
Only Bujold completests need to read the first three stories. “Dreamweaver” makes the rest of the book quite worth the time and “Aftermath” is nice to rehear.
Grover Gardner’s narration is, as usual, wonderful. He makes the lessor stories quite tolerable, and brings life and humor to the best of the stories.
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- Quicktrain, Inc.
- 11-03-16
Lois McMaster Bujold is the best!
I love Lois McMaster Bujold characters, so well developed flawed funny and Excellent. My favorite reader too. can't get enough!
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- J Fab
- 01-25-19
Aftermaths - Best Short Story Ever
For Bujold & Grover Gardner fans, this duo is superb. Interesting Author's note. The first three stories are just OK. The fourth, Dreamweaver's Dilemma was pretty good, very worth a listen. The five starts is really only for the last story, Aftermaths. This is, hands down, the best short story ever. Aftermaths does in 28 minutes what most books fail to do in ten plus hours. It grabs you, and makes you feel. Can't speak highly enough about this story.
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- Linda Luella
- 02-08-16
Classic Bujold if a bit underdeveloped.
First, Ms. Bujold's narrator is, as always, perfect. I don't believe she has ever used anyone other than Grover Gardner and I applaud her good sense in this. The narration is excellent in each and every Vorkosigan saga. That said, I could have lived without this entry in that saga. It is well written but totally disjointed and confusing as to how it relates to any of her other books except, of course, the last entry which is already published in Shards of Honor (I think, or is it in Barrayar?).
My vote says good writing, great narration, but poor storyline in this compendium. I will listen again after digesting the other two stories that just came out and perhaps change my mind but first impression is that this should have been held back and released during the long drought between books and not at the same time as two other books from Ms. Bujold's are released.
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- Noah
- 09-21-22
fun cleaver short stories
I enjoyed all 5 stories. Story lines were cleaver and often surprising reading was well done.
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- Efrat Kotzer Hassid
- 06-20-21
Nice addition for Bujold lovers
Nice addition for Bujold lovers. I liked the proto-Beta-colony novella more than the short stories. "aftermath" is just the epilog of shards, so i find it redundant.
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- Rdj
- 04-07-21
Interesting to see Ms. Bujold’s roots!
She is my favorite author, so it was with great interest I read her earliest works. And astounding that her first novel dovetailed so well with the final story!
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- Nancy Kiesling
- 10-25-19
Strange short pieces.
Bujold has an amazing impact. Her universe is thronged with horror and wonders with her wormholes thru time and space.
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Still new to her duties as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin is working together with expatriate scientist Enrique Borgos on a radical scheme to recover the lands of the Vashnoi exclusion zone, lingering radioactive legacy of the Cetagandan invasion of the planet Barrayar. When Enrique's experimental bioengineered creatures go missing, the pair discover that the zone still conceals deadly old secrets.
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Dear Lois, please keep writing!
- By Peter on 11-15-18
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Falling Free
- Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for 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?
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Don't read this one first
- By Carol on 02-20-13
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Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
- The Miles Vorkosigan Adventures, Book 17
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Future imperfect: Three 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, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined, bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his life. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor's key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission of inquiry into a mystery he never anticipated - his own mother.
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Only for Cordelia fans and, even then, be warned.
- By Susan on 07-22-16
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Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
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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 from the Byzantine court politics of his home system. But when an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive young woman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, his chivalrous nature takes over. It seems danger and adventure have once more found Captain Vorpatril.
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We are finally allowed to see Ivan without Miles.
- By Barbara Kindle Customer on 11-06-12
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Shards of Honor
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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I>Shards of Honor is the novel in which Lois McMaster Bujold introduced the science-fiction world to Barrayar and Aral Vorkosigan, Beta Colony and Cordelia Naismith. From this beginning the author has created a multigenerational saga spanning time as well as space. Bujold is generally recognized as the current exemplar of the character-based science-fiction adventure story.
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First story in the Miles Vorkosigan series
- By Lifelong Reader on 06-18-09
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Memory
- A Miles Vorkosigan Novel
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. Miles Vorkosigan should know - having done both once already. Thanks to his quick-thinking staff and the artistry of a medical specialist, Miles' first death wasn't his last. But it does take some recovery, a fact he has been reluctant to admit. When he makes the mistake of returning too soon to duty, he finds himself summoned to face the security chief, Simon Illyan. But Miles' worst nightmares about Illyan are nothing compared to Illyan's own nightmares.
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Order of series
- By L. Lipp on 04-15-08
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Borders of Infinity
- Miles Vorkosigan Series
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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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 back-country region of Barrayar, where he must act as detective, judge, and executioner in a controversial murder case. In Labyrinth, Miles adopts his alternate persona as Dendarii Mercenary Admiral Naismith for an undercover mission to rescue an important research geneticist from Jackson’s Whole. And in the title story, Miles infiltrates an escape-proof Cetagandan POW camp.
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Book Order is Important!
- By Alexis on 06-17-12
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The Warrior's Apprentice
- A Miles Vorkosigan Novel
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Miles Vorkosigan makes his debut in this frenetic coming-of-age tale. At age 17, 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 in his sleep shortly after, for which Miles blames himself.
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What a great character!
- By Readalot on 01-28-09
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Ethan of Athos
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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With the future of Athos at stake, Ethan is chosen on behalf of his cloistered fellows for a unique mission: to brave the wider universe in quest of new ovarian tissue cultures to replenish Athos' dwindling stocks. Along the way, he must tangle with covert operatives, killers, telepathy, interplanetary politics, and - perhaps most disturbingly - an indomitable female mercenary named Elli Quinn.
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No Miles- but still great!
- By Don Gilbert on 03-31-11
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The Assassins of Thasalon
- A Penric & Desdemona Novella in the World of the Five Gods
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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An unholy attack upon his brother-in-law, General Arisaydia, pitches sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon, Desdemona, headlong into the snake pit of Cedonian imperial politics. But they will not travel alone. The mission from his god brings Penric some of his strangest new allies yet and the return of some of his most valued old ones.
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Another excellent addition to the series!
- By Peter on 08-11-21
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Penric’s Demon
- A Fantasy Novella in the World of the Five Gods
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is the Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season", and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric.
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A Kinder, Gentler Demon
- By Carol on 01-10-16
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Barrayar
- A Vorkosigan Adventure
- By: Lois McMaster Bujold
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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In the wake of interplanetary war, former commander Cordelia Naismith has deserted her own planet to marry the leader of the defeated enemy, Aral Vorkosigan. On his home planet of Barrayar, two rival factions are eyeing the recently vacated throne, and Aral, recently appointed Regent of Barrayar by the Emperor on his deathbed, must stand between them. Lord and Lady Vorkosigan, Aral and Cordelia struggle to establish stability in a fragile government thrown into confusion by the transition of power.
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Lois Bujold always delivers!
- By Karen S. Coyle on 02-04-10