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  <title><![CDATA[Ethan of Athos (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)]]></title>
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  <default_description>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.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[ETHAN OF ATHOS by LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD -- A SciFi spy thriller with medical technology, intrigue, fast paced action, and humor.  Highly recommended as a lot of fun.<br/><br/>Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos is an action packed fun romp of a science fiction book with secret agents and politica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15658267">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read the blurb on the back cover—Dr Ethan Urquhart, a specialist in reproductive medicine from the male-only planet Athos, who has never before seen a woman, has to leave his isolationist, backwater homeworld to seek out some new ovarian samples so that the Athosian population doesn't die o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45732083">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/990093.Ethan_of_Athos_Vorkosigan_Saga_6_" title="Ethan of Athos (Vorkosigan Saga, #6) by Lois McMaster Bujold">Ethan of Athos</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16094.Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> is a book in the Miles Vorkosigan series that has neither Miles nor his alter-ego Naismith in it (except as an off-stage character).<br/><br/>Ethan is from an all-male planet who manages population replacement and growth with cell lines from imported ovarian ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78308846">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written early in the Vorkosigan series and fits chronologically about the same time as Cetaganda. It does not however, feature Miles or his family. The protagonist is Dr. Ethan Urquhart, a leading reproductive expert on the planet Athos. This is an extremely important position because ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40222344">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story is set in the Miles Vorkosigan world, but really happens completely apart from those characters save for one member of the Dendarii Mercenaries joining forces with the protagonist as part of her own investigation.  <br/><br/>One of the key technologies of this universe is the uterine re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36136552">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57881639">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in the Vorkosigan universe, Miles does not appear in this book although he's occasionally referred to. This book takes place shortly after Cetaganda, although it was written much earlier. It sort of shows, in that there is information that comes out in Cetaganda that might have been known to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57881639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77091261">
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    <body><![CDATA[_Ethan of Athos_ (Vorkosigan Saga, #6) <br/>The group Beyond Reality will start reading Ethan of Athos on Sunday, November 15, 2009.<br/><br/>The Goodreads author description says:<br/>&quot;One of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold burst on to t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77091261">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61906.The_Warrior_s_Apprentice_Vorkosigan_Saga_3_" title="The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #3) by Lois McMaster Bujold">The Warrior's Apprentice</a>. The main protagonist is this chap Ethan. He lives on a male only planet inha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75717148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Athos is a strange all-male colony founded by misogynists. When their  replication technology wears out, naive young Ethan is selected to venture out into the big, bad world to buy new genetic material. He gets inadvertently involved in a plot involving intergalactic smuggling, spies, psychics, et a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77761289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I enjoyed the fact that this book did not take the easy way out in the end, the main issue I have with Bujold is that she never gives any sense of setting. The Miles Vorkosigan books, of which this is an offshoot, are funny and entertaining. Cordelia's Honor is the best of them. But this one w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2293821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great spy thriller in which mild-mannered Ethan, doctor of Athos (a planet of male couples who raise only male children in test tubes and see women as the ultimate evil) comes to Kline station to find a lost shipment of ovaries (seriously). Only he runs smack into a conspiracy to contaminate Athos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38486452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bujold is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, as her descriptive writing and masterful weaving of varied plotlines are adept at capturing the imagination and holding a reader's attention.<br/><br/>Ethan of Athos looked at the possible ramifications of religion in a new and interesting way, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38707573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Minor quibble, I guess, but it's something that's been bothering me a lot: Why is it there are only, like, five PoC in Bujold's vision of outer space? You cannot expect me to believe the only people willing to colonize outer space were white. Grarrrrr.<br/><br/>But aside from this, <em>Ethan of Athos</em> ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42559812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is always fun. It's a bit of a departure from the rest of the Miles Vorkosigan series, but it was nice seeing Elli saving the day. Ethan was a very engaging and interesting character and I keep hoping Bujold returns to Athos to see how he and Terrence (and EQ-1's children) are doing.]]></body>
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    <review id="76909728">
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    <body><![CDATA[I like all Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga books. <em>Ethan</em> isn't the most exciting of them, or the heaviest hitter emotionally, but it is proof of the scope of her world building and ability to character-virtuosity. It's a cool little book.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read as part of the omnibus <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61902.Miles_Mystery_Mayhem_Omnibus_Cetaganda_Ethan_of_Athos_Labyrinth_" title="Miles, Mystery &amp; Mayhem (Omnibus  Cetaganda \ Ethan of Athos \ Labyrinth) by Lois McMaster Bujold">Miles, Mystery &amp; Mayhem</a> in August 2009.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, Bujold did it again! Another great novel by one of my favorite writers. While it cold be argued that Bujold writes military science fiction, doing so misess the point of her sublime storytelling ablities. Bujold's fictional universe is consistent and alive, as well as populated by real people ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60113080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very good example why I love sci-fi. It puts contemporary, contentious human issues into immaginery future cultures making a fun read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange, but readable. I didn't love the point of view character, but it was an interesting take on the problems of space, I suppose.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this well enough, but the Vorkosigan universe stories are rather flat without Miles and crew in them.]]></body>
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