Ethan is a doctor in a planet called Athos, a planet where only men live and are born, but as it is easy to predict whithin a number of generations, their female cells stock has arrived to its use limit, so they need to buy new cells to reproduce themselves.
And here the problem arrives as their provider sends them no female cells but empty boxes and some cow meat.
So, they find Ethos to ask their provider to solve the mistake or buy a new stock from a better supplier.
There's only one ship a year which comes and go to Athos which is far away from everywhere else in the universe, as their need to not be near women...
Ethan has to fight his fright at the moment he meets a woman, who saves him from the Cetagandan gemlord who has kipnapped him thinking the stock has arrived Athos, it seems that the cell stock has been a valuous material from Cetaganda.
This Vorkosigan saga novel is not a Miles adventure, but it is a good book and as always there's a lot of action and philosophical questions which we find in the book.
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