About the Book
Hugo Award nominee 2011, Locus Award nominee 2011.
Miles Vorkosigan is back!
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 future — attempts to expand
its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his
top troubleshooter Miles to check it out.
On
Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and
resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the
meaning of generation past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an
icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone
who is the very embodiment of the warning Don’t mess with the
secretary. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping — something is
rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn’t due to power outages in the
Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle — of trouble!
