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Falling Free

Bujold, Lois McMaster. Book - 1988 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.8 out of 5

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Disability and science fiction submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on July 23, 2013, 8:56pm Set in the same universe but hundreds of years before Miles Vorkosigan's time, "Free Falling" is about a race of four-armed people genetically created in labs to work in zero gravity. The "Quaddies" have no legs, and so do not function well in places that do have gravity. The corporation that created them has decided it no longer has any use for them and so wants to kill them, or at least involuntarily sterilize all the Quaddies, who must escape to save themselves and their children.
Like the Vorkosigan series, "Free Falling" (the name refers to living or working in zero gravity) positively portrays disability in science fiction, which is rare, unfortunately.
Read the rest of McMaster Bujold's science fiction, especially the Vorkosigan books for more adventures and positive portrayals of LGBT people, religious minorities and others.

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SERIES
The Vorkosigan saga
1.



PUBLISHED
Baen, 1988.
Year Published: 1988
Description: 307 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
067157812X :
0671653989 :

SUBJECTS
Vorkosigan, Miles (Fictitious character)
Science fiction.