The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold

[james_davis_nicoll]

Efforts to decontaminate a radioactive zone on Barrayar produce an entirely unexpected discovery.

The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold

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[riderius]

The (surviving) upper classes after the reign of Mad Yuri, even the more feckless, seemed to have absorbed the background danger of political problem-solving by conventional assassination into their worldveiw enough to make any widespread success unlikely.