Ethan of Athos

Hardcover, 224 pages

English language

Published Aug. 14, 2003 by NESFA Press.

ISBN:
978-1-886778-39-9
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OCLC Number:
54665692

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4 stars (42 reviews)

You'd think that an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women would be underemployed...

Not so; Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center, is one of the busiest men on the planet Athos. That is, until a mysterious genetic crisis threatens Athos with extinction.

Drafted to brave the wider universe for his cloistered fellows in quest of new ovarian tissue cultures, Ethan braces himself for his first encounter with those most alien of aliens...females of his own species. But braced or not, his wildest imaginings could never have stiffened him sufficiently for alliance with Dendarii Mercenary Commander Elli Quinn, an utterly gorgeous mercenary intelligence officer who has her own secret interest in Athos's problems...and Ethan as well.

The description comes from the publisher. This is one of the books in the Vorkosigan Saga.

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Sigo hablando de la saga de Miles! Mi idea había sido ir intercalando un libro de la saga con otro que no tuviera que ver, pero como ves esa idea se perdió por el camino. Después de Cetaganda, la saga me enganchó de tal manera que me leí un montón de libros seguidos. Auténtica ANSIA lectora.

En esta ocasión nos encontramos ante una rareza, ya que por primera vez ningún miembro de la familia Vorkosigan es el protagonista de la novela. Pero no por ello la novela pierde encanto, aunque sí que se echa mucho de menos a Miles, es decir puede parecer una novela de relleno, pero mi consejo es que no os la saltéis. Sobre todo porque bosqueja ciertas cosas que tendrán peso en futuras aventuras de Miles.

En esta ocasión el protagomismo se lo reparten dos personajes, un personaje ya conocido que no nombraré para no hacer …

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Not sure how I had made it to 2010 without ever reading a Vorkosigan Saga novel, but I did, and now that has been remedied. I found the naive but hardworking and dedicated Dr. Ethan Urquhart very amusing, and loved the dashing and hyper-competent Dendarri Mercenary Commander Elli Quinn. Funny, suspenseful fluff. I shall hunt down the rest of the books.

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