Ethan of Athos is an English language science fiction novel, which is part of the Vorkosigan Saga by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. It is an unusual member of the series in that it does not feature Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of almost all the other books.
The name "Athos" for the main character's planet may be a reference to Mount Athos in Greece. Alternately, it may be an indirect tribute to the actor Oliver Reed, whom Bujold is kn...
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Ethan of Athos is an English language science fiction novel, which is part of the Vorkosigan Saga by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. It is an unusual member of the series in that it does not feature Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of almost all the other books.
The name "Athos" for the main character's planet may be a reference to Mount Athos in Greece. Alternately, it may be an indirect tribute to the actor Oliver Reed, whom Bujold is known to admire (she has cited him as a model for Miles' father Aral Vorkosigan); Reed played the role of Athos in the 1973 film version of The Three Musketeers.
It tells the story of Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Centre on the planet of Athos, and his quest to Kline Station to find out what happened to a shipment of vital ovarian tissue cultures.
For religious reasons, Athos was founded and maintained as an exclusively male-populated planetary colony, whose continuing reproduction relies on uterine...
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