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Summary: In this James Triptree Reader's Choice award winning novel, Thenet, an Eperu (neuter) of the tri-sexed Jokka, finds himself cast out the House where he has lived and served most of his life, and finds himself entering a desperate partnership with Dlane, an Anadi (female) on the run from her fate as a mother, an act that inevitably ends with Minddeath, as an Anadi's overstrained body destroys their intelligence.
Together they manage to find stability, and a measure of happiness, even as Thenet struggles to redefine himself after losing everything, and Dlane leads him on a quest to find the legendary Birthwell, where their race originated.
( Welcome to Cordelia Vorkosigan's worst nightmare )
Together they manage to find stability, and a measure of happiness, even as Thenet struggles to redefine himself after losing everything, and Dlane leads him on a quest to find the legendary Birthwell, where their race originated.
( Welcome to Cordelia Vorkosigan's worst nightmare )
