Título: Cryoburn (13) (Vorkosigan Saga)
Autor: Lois McMaster Bujold
Sinopse: New York Times Best-Selling Author.
The Long-Awaited New Installment in the Popular and Award-Winning Vorkosigan Series. Starring the Explosively Charismatic Miles Vorkosigan.
Miles Vorkosigan is back!
Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove—he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp—an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future—attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out.
On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don’t mess with the secretary. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping—something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn’t due to power outages in the Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle—of trouble!
“Fresh, intriguing, and, as always with Lois McMaster Bujold, superb.” —Robert Jordan
“It is such a delight to read something by such a good writer, who now seems to be writing at the height of her powers. . . . I really have seldom enjoyed a book so much . . . I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.” —Diana Wynne Jones
“Living breathing characters who inhabit unusual yet believable worlds.” —Jean Auel
“Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary and her usual superb character development . . . enormously satisfying.” —Publishers Weekly
“One of sf’s outstanding talents . . . an outstanding series.” —Booklist
“Excellently done . . . Bujold has always excelled at creating forceful characters and she does it here again.” —Denver Post
“. . . an intelligent, well-crafted and thoroughly satisfying blend of adventure, sociopolitical commentary, scientific experiments, and occasional perils . . . with that extra spicing of romance. . . .” —Locus
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Cryoburn (13) (Vorkosigan Saga)”, de Lois McMaster Bujold, publicado pela editora Baen, em 2010 e com 352 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Baen
Páginas: 352
Ano: 2010-10-19
Edição: First Edition First Printing
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1439133948
ISBN13: 9781439133941
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Baen costumam transportar o leitor para universos onde o conflito militar e a aventura espacial são centrais, com narrativas que mesclam ação tensa e estratégias de guerra em cenários que vão de invasões alienígenas a batalhas interestelares. A experiência de leitura frequentemente envolve protagonistas enfrentando ameaças implacáveis, seja em combates corpo a corpo, seja em confrontos de frotas estelares, com ritmo acelerado e foco em decisões de sobrevivência e honra. O catálogo sugere ainda uma diversidade que contempla desde fantasia urbana com mistérios sobrenaturais até histórias de ficção científica histórica, com personagens que transitam entre mundos e tempos, oferecendo tanto tramas mais narrativas quanto outras com tom mais informativo ou político.
