- Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Baen Books; Reissue edition (15 Dec 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 067165604X
- ISBN-13: 978-0671656041
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 1.7 x 10.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 385,364 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Our hero is a quiet, upstanding citizen of Athos, an obstetrician in a world in which reproduction is carried out entirely via uterine replicator, without the aid of living women. Problem: the 200-year-old cultures are not providing eggs the way they used to, and attempts to order replacements by mail have failed catastrophically. But when Ethan is sent to find out what happened and acquire more eggs, he finds himself in a morass of Cetagandan covert ops and Jackson Whole politics--and the only person who's around to rescue him is the inimitable--and, disturbingly, female--Elli Quinn, Dendarii rent-a-spy.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a very good story, well plotted with a sympathetic hero who is out-of-the-ordinary. The atypical swaggering hero, he is the casual everyday-Joe who is caught up in events beyond his knowledge. Happily he is, unbeknownst to him, benignly guarded by Elli Quin, of the Dendarii Mercenaries.
Better yet, this story is well written. It is set in the future universe of Miles Vorkosigan (of which there is a whole series) where uterine replicators free men from the shackles of women - at least for a few centuries before senescence proves the nature of genetics is female.
It covers lightly but incisively homosexuality-homophobia, and the everyday-Joe, and the rights to freedom, and commercial exploitation. It also includes spies and espionage, and urban tactical warfare, and conflict within an enclosed urban area.
If it all sounds like heavy-going reading in a science-fiction space-opera novel, then it's obvious that you haven't picked up a Lois McMaster Bujold book _ever_! She writes her stories so well that your imagination can produce a movie from the sketches of her words.
Buy this book and read it! I won't regret it.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Ethan of Athos is a very pleasant addition to Bujold's 'Vorkosigan' books. It takes a bit of a side route from her main timeline, concentrating instead on Elli Quinn and one of her adventures while working for the Dendarii Mercenaries.
The idea of an all-male society (only possible with advanced technology) is well explored, as is the culture clash when a member of this society (Ethan) has to deal with that most mysterious entity - a woman.
This however, is merely one thread of an amusing, engaging plot involving interplanetary espionage, genetics, space station life and eels (yes, eels - I won't spoil the plot by explaining them).
If you've never read any Bujold, but you like quality writing and convincing characters, this is a great book to start on, with very little 'past history' to deal with. If you've read and liked anything else by her, you should enjoy this book.
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Don't start this one thinking Miles is in it. You'll only be disappointed. The little guy is mentioned quite a bit though and one of the major characters is Elli Quinn, some might remember her from The Warrior's Apprentice. The main protagonist is this chap Ethan. He lives on a male only planet inhabited by blokes who live in superstitious dread of women (otherwise known as uterine replicators with legs). The fun starts when he has to leave his home planet in search or a replacement supply of ovarian cultures to replace the failing existing cultures, without which his society can't reproduce. Due to massive culture shock (women everywhere) Ethan soon gets up to his neck in trouble. It's all quite light hearted but very amusing.
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