Name: Ethan of Athos
ISBN: 9780671656041

Bujold

Drafted into aiding a quest for ovarian tissue samples, Chief of Biology Dr. Ethan Urquhart confronts the female members of his species, who have been forbidden to live on their home planet. Reprint.

Ethan of Athos

A romp, based around the contra-Amazonian. Think Babylon 5 with added lunacy!

Jan Jackson

Vicky  Nuñez 

Ethan of Athos is a non-Vorkosigan book that is severely lacking with the absence of Miles Naismith, but tried to mimic his spirit with the audacious Ellie Quinn. 

So the idea behind this book is that a group of people took an uterine replicator, a contraption simulates an uterus, to create an all men planet and make them believe women are evil and that they have entrapped men from all over the universe so they must never leave the planet to not contaminate themselves with women. 

I really liked Athos and the idea behind it, it was really interesting to see how they fended for themselves without a feminine influence. I wasn't entirely sold in Ethan as a main character. He was too passive most of the book, there were very few and far between moments where he shined.

Elli, on the other hand, is a great character, especially when you realize she is only pretending to be this bold, adventurous mercenary because she keeps picturing Admiral Naismith and what he would do. 

I also loved how it all turned out, I was definitely not expecting Terrence Cee. 

It was entertaining. More thriller aspect, but still really good.

But despite its great story, something was missing. And we all know who that is.

Gavin

Interestingly gay. The male planet is theocratic, bureaucratic, backwards - but Bujold doesn’t beat them up and doesn’t dissolve them in the name of progress. I also like the tiny space the whole book occurs within. But that’s about it

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Julia A.

Me gustan muchísimo más los volúmenes en los que no sale Miles... 🤔

Ben Nathan

Fun characters. I'm enjoying this series. Glad it's so big and I can spread it out over the course of the next few months.

Spaceghost 

Claudiu

Hunter Loftis

Tim Pennington-Russell

Brent Nef

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. He faces a 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.

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