Ethan of AthosLois McMaster BujoldLabel: Baen BooksDescription: 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. 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. But when Ethan is sent to find out what happened and acquire more eggs he finds himself in a morass of Cetagandan covert ops and Jackson Whole politics - and the only person who's around to rescue him is the inimitable - and disturbingly female - Elli Quinn Dendarii rent-a-spy.