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As Wise as Serpents [MultiFormat]
eBook by Stephen Dedman
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The alien being clearly came from an advanced culture, but she seemed determined not to communicate. What could be causing her strange silence?
eBook Publisher: Rosetta Solutions, Inc., Published: 1993
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2001
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [72 KB], eReader (PDB) [35 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [12 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [11 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [89 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [83 KB], hiebook (KML) [69 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [82 KB], iSilo (PDB) [10 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [13 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [62 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [20 KB]
Words: 3300
Reading time: 9-13 min.
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My father's parents were Boers (you can spell that any damn way you like) who fled South Africa just ahead of black majority rule. My mother was the first Australian Aborigine to be granted refugee status as a member of a politically persecuted minority. It gives me the sort of perspective an anthropologist should have. It also makes me socially unacceptable almost anywhere, which is why I wasn't at the Mall when it happened; that, and the fact that Vpokga(ro)tjj speaks better English than the President. Besides, protocol always bores the shit out of me. I wasn't even watching it on the Lo-V, and when the phone rang, I was so thoroughly otherwise engaged that it took me half a minute of Tai Chi to disengage and grab the handset (no one in their right mind keeps a videphone by the bed). "Sara van Elven. This had better be good."
There was a horrible silence at the other end, then I heard Pastorelli mutter, "Uhhh.... no. It's bad."
I gestured to Jerry, who began collecting my clothes from underneath Evan, who miaowed indignantly. "What is it, Lui?"
"The reception for Vpokga(ro)tjj..."
"Yes?"
There was another horrible silence, then, "She shot the Secretary of State and the Director of the N.S.A., and she won't tell us why." He paused, and then added, "And the Lagva slowboat arrives in four days. If we haven't found out why before then..."
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