Ethan of Athos Audiobook (Free)

Set in Bujold’s Vorkosigan world, this independent novel follows a health care provider as he braces himself for his 1st encounter with that most alien of aliens-a woman of his personal species.

Dr. Ethan Urquhart is normally chief of biology at a District Reproduction Middle. He delivers babies from uterine replicators. You see, on Athos there are no women. In fact, the planet is forbidden to them. Isolated from your galactic community by distance and a lack of exploitable resources, the Athosians possess peacefully lived their peculiar interpersonal experiment for just two hundred years. But now, the ovarian civilizations dating back again to the original arrangement of the planet are offering. With the future of Athos on the line, Ethan is chosen on behalf of his cloistered fellows for a distinctive mission: to courageous the wider universe in quest of fresh ovarian tissue ethnicities to replenish Athos’ dwindling stocks. On the way, he must tangle with covert operatives, killers, telepathy, interplanetary politics, and-perhaps most disturbingly-an indomitable woman mercenary called Elli Quinn.