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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... stand around in hatchways ship- board . " Leslie followed her through , turning to dog the door as he remembered his safety lectures , and when he turned back Casey had moved into the middle of a chamber 6 ELIZABETH BEAR.
... stand around in hatchways ship- board . " Leslie followed her through , turning to dog the door as he remembered his safety lectures , and when he turned back Casey had moved into the middle of a chamber 6 ELIZABETH BEAR.
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... stands out about me once I'm dressed ; the sidearm pressed to my right hip . Valens never rescinded his order to keep it within reach . I slick my damp hair back - neat and under control- and stuff the comb into the vinyl hanging pocket ...
... stands out about me once I'm dressed ; the sidearm pressed to my right hip . Valens never rescinded his order to keep it within reach . I slick my damp hair back - neat and under control- and stuff the comb into the vinyl hanging pocket ...
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... 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 both going nuts sitting on our asses . " Correction . You are going nuts ...
... 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 both going nuts sitting on our asses . " Correction . You are going nuts ...
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... stands up , coming around the desk , as starched and pressed as me and eight inches shorter . " I want to thank you for not springing your radical idea on me in front of the scientists , ma'am . " " I think Elspeth and Richard deserve ...
... stands up , coming around the desk , as starched and pressed as me and eight inches shorter . " I want to thank you for not springing your radical idea on me in front of the scientists , ma'am . " " I think Elspeth and Richard deserve ...
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... standing tall . " At ease , Casey . I'm done yelling at you . " " Yes , ma'am . " But this time I let her hear the humor in it . She nods , then shakes her head and taps her knuckle on her chin . " Casey , you're a shit disturber . You ...
... standing tall . " At ease , Casey . I'm done yelling at you . " " Yes , ma'am . " But this time I let her hear the humor in it . She nods , then shakes her head and taps her knuckle on her chin . " Casey , you're a shit disturber . You ...
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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—