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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... fingers as if trying to gauge the size of the ships that float out there , the way you might measure a tree on the horizon against your thumb . His gaze keeps sliding down to the dust - palled Earth , his eyes impassive , giving nothing ...
... fingers as if trying to gauge the size of the ships that float out there , the way you might measure a tree on the horizon against your thumb . His gaze keeps sliding down to the dust - palled Earth , his eyes impassive , giving nothing ...
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... fingers and ticked off goals one at a time . " One , mitigate climate changes . Two , mitigate extinctions . Three , protect individual human lives . Four , try to help the team talking to the Benefactors . Mean- while , you set up a ...
... fingers and ticked off goals one at a time . " One , mitigate climate changes . Two , mitigate extinctions . Three , protect individual human lives . Four , try to help the team talking to the Benefactors . Mean- while , you set up a ...
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... fingers mobile as the sticks of a fan . " That's the thing , Jen . We stand just as much of a chance of infuriating them by do- ing nothing as we do by wandering over and knocking on the door . We just can't know . " Besides . We're ...
... fingers mobile as the sticks of a fan . " That's the thing , Jen . We stand just as much of a chance of infuriating them by do- ing nothing as we do by wandering over and knocking on the door . We just can't know . " Besides . We're ...
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... through the haze weren't watery and wan , and if the ice itself weren't streaked brown and gray like agate with ejecta . " A park , " he said , looking down at his hands . He folded his fingers together . He never had worn WORLDWIRED 35.
... through the haze weren't watery and wan , and if the ice itself weren't streaked brown and gray like agate with ejecta . " A park , " he said , looking down at his hands . He folded his fingers together . He never had worn WORLDWIRED 35.
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Elizabeth Bear. He folded his fingers together . He never had worn a wed- ding band ; rings annoyed him . " What on earth ... fingers out of the Montreal's pie . " " You could always seize it— ” He shifted against the side panel of the ...
Elizabeth Bear. He folded his fingers together . He never had worn a wed- ding band ; rings annoyed him . " What on earth ... fingers out of the Montreal's pie . " " You could always seize it— ” He shifted against the side panel of the ...
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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—