Kate MacLeod
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Elyot loathes the massive Commonwealth ships that hover menacingly over his home world of Adghal. He hates the Commonwealth enforcers who harass the populace even more. But with his mother missing and presumed dead, Elyot keeps his head down and strives to avoid notice. And he succeeds until the day two strangers enter his life.Keani wields knives with practiced skill, her childhood serving out the remaining years of her parents' time in a prison...
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In the cellar of a bookstore in the hidden, magical neighborhoods that thread all throughout Minneapolis, a support group for the Victims of That Bastard Magician Samson meets.Ghostly Kitty, who once jostled Samson, no longer possesses a physical form.Loquacious Lara, who missed his lack of interest in her words, no longer articulates anything.Eternal wanderer Mo, who couldn't take Samson where he wanted to go, has lost the ability to get anywhere...
3) Death Spiral
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Sanyah Allani, born on a space station, once dreamt of retirement on a cabin down on Earth. But when she finds herself suddenly a widow, that dream loses all appeal. Instead, she goes to a mining asteroid, taking work as a security officer.But what was meant to be a sleepy posting becomes anything but, when a dead body is found deep in one of the mine's caves. A murder, but worse, the victim isn't even supposed to be there.And the aliens the humans...
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In a future where interstellar travel is only possible for humans by stowing away like rats in the walls of alien ships, few choose to travel far from home.Indeed, Sister June never strayed beyond the boundaries of the dome on Mars that housed her commune. And she never intended to wake on the journey from that dome to another on the far side of the universe.But a pair of stowaways drain too many resources from the other travelers, forcing all of...
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Every midsummer, young Peter and his family visit the fair. His siblings love the fair. They look forward to it all year. Peter hates the smells, the noise, and the crowds of people.But this time, it's Peter who has been anxiously waiting all year for the fair to come again. Because the year before, something happened to his sister Elinor. Something bad.And this year may be his only chance to fix it."The Fair Folk," a fantasy short story of magic...
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Vic Harper and her gang retired wealthy from their life of thievery and heists. Whether in a luxury condo overlooking the river in Minneapolis or in a modernist mansion built into the side of a mountain in Colorado, life comes easy now.Perhaps too easy.When an old friend asks for a favor his niece, Vic and her mentor Chase Woodward leap at the chance to relieve a little of the boredom. But a quick bit of B&E in a wealthy suburb of Chicago leads to...
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Tales from Across Space collects five stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod:The science fiction novelette "Required to Assist," a mystery set on board a colony ship, where one woman alone is woken by the ship's droids to solve a murder."Sword and Tattoo," a fantasy short story where a stranger stumbles into a hidden town. He brings danger with him, but the people of the town just might be more dangerous still.The science fiction...
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Valentina knows how to live in the community spread throughout the old mining caves under the Martian ice cap. A violent place in a forbidding climate, but home for her and her brother. Until she wakes from a coma to find her brother gone. Her father thinks her incapable of following them back to the equatorial cities. He underestimates her – her stubbornness, her courage and her inventiveness. But she underestimates the cold, airless surface of...