From the back cover: Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could you just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies--now all he had to do was teach them to be free.
Paperback, 307 pages
English language
Published May 16, 1988 by Baen Books.
The book is very similar to a standalone sci-fi story like The Martian. This is a good introduction to the Vorkosigan Universe without committing.
The story wraps up cleanly by the end, there is not open question or cliffhanger at the end.
