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Lord Miles Vorkosigan is sent to investigate a problem on the conquered planet of Komarr, where the name Vorkosigan is drenched in blood. The Komarrans surrounding Miles could be loyal subjects--or rebels ready for revenge.  

When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral. Upon arrival, the two men are inexplicably attacked by a servant of the late empress. 

Miles Vorkosigan is sent to investigate a company whose job is to lead its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future--a company trying to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire.

Leo Graf is confronted with a moral dilemma when he is assigned to work at the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids have been secretly bioengineered as workers for capital gain.

The adventures of Miles Vorkosigan continue in these three tales, in which Miles must play detective in a murder case, adopt his undercover persona for a rescue mission, and play hero for a POW camp and a deeply distressed damsel.

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow.

This book invokes the latest scientific discoveries to rewrite our understanding of plants and the natural world, offering insights about the unforeseen reach of sentience among plants, their ability to communicate and adapt, and their function as ecological sentinels.

Mal's crew desperately need another payday, but not desperately enough to transport a Blue Sun flightcase to Badger, no questions asked, when the area is swarming with Alliance spacecraft equally keen to regain the stolen property. Yet Jayne refuses to miss out, and sneaks the case aboard Serenity.

Explorer Troop 301 tries to save an exploding planet from a fluffy bunny and a devious alien.

At the turn of the twenty-second century, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. A team of these explorers, Ariadne O'Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed.