Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)

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 corporate 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 save, nor in the rules... Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies now all he had to do was teach them to be free. Calc ESN Part 1 : 04 Uncomma Title 2 : Falling Free Number of Words in Auth: 3 Formats : EPUB ESN Combined : 04 ES Name : Vorkosigan Saga ES Cover Quality : ICBF Compare Author : eq Quick Search : Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free Has Cover : Yes Test Text Series Index: 4 Single Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Raw Title : Falling Free Sorted Author by LN, FN: Bujold, Lois McMaster Enter Series Index : 04 of 26 Calc Series Group : Vorkosigan Saga Title Length : 12 Title Parm A : Falling Free Calc ESN Part 3 : 26 Any Num n Name : Saga Calc ESI Combined : 04 of 26 ES Group : SIPZ_E Record ID : 114 Enter New Series (Calced): SIPZ_E.Vorkosigan Saga.Scifan.04 of 26..ICBF Test Compare Series to Entered: eq Uncomma Author : Lois McMaster Bujold ES Genre : Scifan Calc New Series : Vorkosigan Saga.... Calc ESI Part 3 : 26 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 04 Calc ESN Part 2 : of Test Search : Falling Free / Lois McMaster Bujold All Identifiers : ff:b/lois-mcmaster-bujold/falling-free, goodreads:61915, google:sWlhPwAACAAJ, isbn:9781886778535 Num of Aut : 1 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 corporate exploitation of his bright new students... until 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 a thousand quaddies---now all he had to do was teach them to be free. Falling Free takes place approximately 200 yearsbeforethe events inCordelia's Honorand does not share settings or characters with the main body of the series. *From the back cover:* 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. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could you just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation? Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies--now all he had to do was teach them to be free. Genetic engineering has permitted the development of a breed of humans tailored for zero-gravity - "quaddies" with four grasping appendages instead of two arms and two legs. Now the development of artificial gravity has made them obsolete, and the giant corporation that invented them desperately needs to cover its illegal tracks The shining rim of the planet Rodeo wheeled dizzily past the observation port of the orbital transfer station.