I disagree that the book is basically unsympathetic to cryonics. It’s true that Miles is basically unsympathetic to cryonics, but Miles is, as we have seen in earlier books, somewhat prejudiced by his Barrayaran upbringing. The characters native to the planet seem to think that Cryonics is good, and that it’s just the corporations that are going wrong. True, some of them later accept life-extension technologies in place of this, but I think that’s natural—especially since the people accepting know that they can’t keep running their cryo-place forever.
I disagree that the book is basically unsympathetic to cryonics. It’s true that Miles is basically unsympathetic to cryonics, but Miles is, as we have seen in earlier books, somewhat prejudiced by his Barrayaran upbringing. The characters native to the planet seem to think that Cryonics is good, and that it’s just the corporations that are going wrong. True, some of them later accept life-extension technologies in place of this, but I think that’s natural—especially since the people accepting know that they can’t keep running their cryo-place forever.