Dr. Ethan Urquhart, an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women, is Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center and one of the busiest men on the planet Athos. Then a mysterious genetic crisis threatens Athos with extinction. Drafted to brave the wider universe for his cloistered fellows in quest of new ovarian tissue cultures, Ethan braces himself for his first encounter with those most alien of aliens--females of his own species.
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Dr. Ethan Urquhart, an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women, is Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center and one of the busiest men on the planet Athos. Then a mysterious genetic crisis threatens Athos with extinction. Drafted to brave the wider universe for his cloistered fellows in quest of new ovarian tissue cultures, Ethan braces himself for his first encounter with those most alien of aliens--females of his own species.
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I love the Miles Vorkosigan series, of which this book is supposed to belong. However, our hero is only mentioned without any actual participation. But Bujold is a superb writer and anything she writes is great.
I would probably rate it as the weakest link of that chain, though.
Ellyb
Mar 17, 2008
bizarre in a good way
Bujold took a bizarre premise here and went with it, to mostly positive effect. Her protagonist comes from a society with pretty abhorrent views towards women (they're forbidden on his planet, and contact with the feminine "other" is considered dangerous) and yet he is sympathetic and rather pitiable. Ethan is hapless and manages to involve himself in shady operations way over his head as he attempts to secure new genetic source material for the survival of his planet. Poor guy. This novel intersects with the Vorkosigan series in the form of a female mercenary who readers will know from "The Warriors Apprentice." All in all, this is a unique story that addresses the extreme forms that societies could take, given a shiny new planet and enough deluded followers to populate it. "Ethan of Athos" also lives up to the standard of Bujold's writing: well-paced, laced with dry humor, and filled with three dimensional characters.
