WorldwiredAs long as there’s an Earth to defend, Jenny Casey has a job. But she may outlast the world she was custom-built to save. . . . Give Canada’s Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she’ll take a galaxy. That’s just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063, and Earth has been brutalized. An asteroid flung at Toronto by the PanChinese government has killed tens of millions and left the equivalent of a nuclear explosion in its wake. Humanity must find another option. . . . Perched above the devastation in the starship Montreal, Jenny is still in the thick of the fray. Plugged into the worldwire, connected to a brilliant AI, her mind can be everywhere and anywhere at once. But it’s focused on the mysterious alien beings right outside her ship. Are they there to help—or destroy? With Earth a breeding ground for treason and betrayal as governments struggle to assign blame, Jenny holds the fate of humankind in her artificially reconstructed hand. . . . |
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... Riel said , chew- ing , her image flickering in the cheap holographic display . Valens smoothed the interface plate , cool plastic slightly tacky and gritty with the omnipresent dust . The prime minister covered her mouth with the back ...
... Riel said , chew- ing , her image flickering in the cheap holographic display . Valens smoothed the interface plate , cool plastic slightly tacky and gritty with the omnipresent dust . The prime minister covered her mouth with the back ...
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... Riel's image flickered as the interface panel , released from the pressure of his palm , wrinkled again . " Am I being asked to ? " The prime minister laughed . " You're being asked to get your ass to the provisional capital of ...
... Riel's image flickered as the interface panel , released from the pressure of his palm , wrinkled again . " Am I being asked to ? " The prime minister laughed . " You're being asked to get your ass to the provisional capital of ...
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... shiptree , visible beyond the port , winking lights and elegant curves like hand - smoothed wood . " And Richard says Fred says something has to break on the PanChinese front shortly . Riel's going to demand 18 ELIZABETH BEAR.
... shiptree , visible beyond the port , winking lights and elegant curves like hand - smoothed wood . " And Richard says Fred says something has to break on the PanChinese front shortly . Riel's going to demand 18 ELIZABETH BEAR.
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Elizabeth Bear. on the PanChinese front shortly . Riel's going to demand restitution for Toronto " " She wants to get ... Riel han- dle Earth and China , and worry about talking to the Benefactors . " Jen swallowed and glanced about for ...
Elizabeth Bear. on the PanChinese front shortly . Riel's going to demand restitution for Toronto " " She wants to get ... Riel han- dle Earth and China , and worry about talking to the Benefactors . " Jen swallowed and glanced about for ...
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... Riel touched her earpiece and accepted his call . She wasn't in her temporary office in the provisional capitol , but a mobile one aboard her cus- tomized airliner . " Good evening , Dr. Feynman . " " The same to you , Prime Minister ...
... Riel touched her earpiece and accepted his call . She wasn't in her temporary office in the provisional capitol , but a mobile one aboard her cus- tomized airliner . " Good evening , Dr. Feynman . " " The same to you , Prime Minister ...
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Page 170 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : the long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows; for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: it may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, and see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much...
Page 170 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 172 - Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in the old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal-temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 373 - I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Page 341 - So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
Page 28 - Montreal's variable, lightert nan-earth grav takes some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it it's pretty darn sexy.
Page 183 - You know, it was Einstein who said that imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited.
Page 230 - Janet didn't know his name. She didn't want to know his name. She didn't want to...
Page 131 - I don't want to get your hopes up. And I don't want to give you a false impression that I have any control of this situation at all, much as I wish I could do something—