Miles, Mutants and Microbes

Miles Among Mutants

So what if he’s a squat, malformed, weak-boned royal outcast? Miles Vorkosigan’s hyperactive intellect and relentless drive wins through time and again to save the day for the Empire that rejected him. PLUS: You are the perfect spacer – engineered for freefall in body, mind and soul. But now the work’s done and you’re slated to be genocidally wiped from existence. Are you human enough to resist? Hell, yeah!

Here in one masterly volume set in the “Vorkosigan” universe: the science fiction classic and Nebula-award-winning Falling Free, plus two Miles Vorkosigan tales of derring-do, droll wit, and dynamic world-building spun by the multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winning Doyenne of Modern Space Opera, Lois McMaster Bujold!

Cover Art by Alan Pollack

Hardcover
Paperback

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, August 2007

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bujold, Lois McMaster.
Miles, mutants & microbes / Lois McMaster Bujold.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original"—T.p. verso.
ISBN 1-4165-2141-0 (hc)
1. Vorkosigan, Miles (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Science fiction, American. I. Title. II. Title: Miles, mutants and microbes.

PS3552.U397M56 2007
813'.54--dc22
2007018794

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2141-9
ISBN-10: 1-4165-2141-0

Preface copyright © 2007 by Lois McMaster Bujold. Falling Free copyright © 1988 by Lois McMaster Bujold; "Labyrinth" copyright © 1989 by Lois McMaster Bujold; Diplomatic Immunity copyright © 2002 by Lois McMaster Bujold.

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The Vorkosigan Saga:

Shards of Honor
Barrayar
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Vor Game
Cetaganda
Borders of Infinity
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Diplomatic Immunity
 
Falling Free
Ethan of Athos
 

Omnibus Editions:

Cordelia's Honor
Young Miles
Miles, Mystery & Mayhem
Miles Errant
Miles, Mutants & Microbes
Miles in Love (forthcoming)