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Written by Lois McMaster Bujold - Audio book performed by Carol Cowan & Michael Hanson - Unabridged Fiction - 7 CASSETTES - 9 hours, 9 minutes

Publisher, Reader's Chair (1996)

Received the coveted 'AudioFile Earphones Award' (November/December 1996) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

"A secret, commercial, genetic-engineering project has produced a new species of human who have two additional arms instead of legs, making them ideally suited to work in free fall. This production shows dual narrators can enrich the listening experience." --AudioFile

THE FIRST AUDIO EDITION IN BUJOLD'S AWARD-WINNING SF SERIES

WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

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Engineer Leo Graf is sent by GalacTech to teach free-fall welding and construction on an orbital habitat. His students are genetically engineered space workers adapted specifically for life and work in null-G.

It seemed a simple enough assignment; but Leo was unprepared for what he would really be called upon to do. What he discovers causes him to examine the very nature of freedom -- theirs and his own...