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Accident or Treachery?
Komarr could be a garden-with a thousand more years work. or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered

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1 author picked Komarr as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Thoughtful Science Fiction! This is my favorite of Lois McMaster Bujold’s many great Vorkosigan novels, largely because of the depth of its insight into human character and the way that she can bring me along on a wonderful maturing relationship between two completely believable characters. Komarr provides a page-turning science fiction adventure and political intrigue with the backdrop of a thoughtful examination of an abusive relationship contrasted with a real romance. A thinking a person’s action-adventure story indeed, worth multiple reads!

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