However, as he learns more about the Quaddies – most of whom are merely children – he realizes that they’re slaves of GalacTech, not paid for their work and treated like nothing more than experiments who have no emotions or will of their own. Leo has never seen anything like them, but other than their mutation they’re equal to any other human in every way. They were bioengineered to have a second set of arms instead of legs and a few other modifications that make them ideal for working in free fall (aka zero-gee). He’s there to train some of the inhabitants of the station, who he’s surprised to discover are a group of genetically modified humans known as Quaddies. This one, though, is about Leo Graf, an engineer who is sent by his employer, GalacTech, to the Cay Project Habitat, a space station in orbit around the planet Rodeo. However, the Quaddies who are such a big part of this book – or at least their descendants – apparently appear in a future story of the series. It takes place about two hundred years prior to the escapades of the Vorkosigan family, so there aren’t really any common characters with the later books. Falling Free is the first book in Lois McMasters Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga if you’re choosing to read them in the chronological order of the series, like I am.
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