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Moments [MultiFormat]
eBook by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  The spaceship came from Europa. The crew was dead, slaughtered by something inside the ship. But what? A story that looks at the effect of murder and space travel on all the people who encounter them.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Sol's Children, ed. Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2003
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [82 KB], eReader (PDB) [33 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [19 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [18 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [40 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [90 KB], hiebook (KML) [74 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [47 KB], iSilo (PDB) [16 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [20 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [48 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [30 KB]
Words: 5651
Reading time: 16-22 min.
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One"We have to be prepared," Hoa Nguyen said as she strapped on her laser pistol. She also carried a stun stick. She had attached an emergency aid patch to the inside of her left wrist. Her black hair was pulled back, and she wore a medium level environmental suit. With a soft voice command, the suit would seal around her ankles and wrists, raise a hood that would cover her entire face, and protect her against a hostile environment. She hoped she wouldn't have to use it. "Everything could change in an instant." The two members of her security team watched as if they had never seen her before. JaVon Daschle and Nils Svenson were men used to routine; they'd never encountered a situation like this one before. She hadn't either, but she had encountered other things. And the only control she had was in her preparation. They stood in the prep room near the docking ring. Behind her was an interlinked series of locking doors, all of which would shut in case of a structural breach or damage to the environmental systems. The prep room was small, and only the security teams had access to it. Inside were the environmental suits, weapons, and other gear specially designed for trouble on the docking ring. "Traffic Control tells me the landing was rough. The compensations we sent for the new docking ring were not used, and no one answered when we tried direct contact. The ship stabilized, depressurized and went through standard procedure, but no one has disembarked in the hour since landing." JaVon strapped on his own laser pistol. He was large, muscular, barely within the physical requirements for security on the space station. "Has the ship been decontaminated?" "Decontamination can't proceed until the crew is evacuated," Hoa said, letting her annoyance show. Her security team should know procedure. "Then I'm not going in," Nils said, his pale skin flushed. He had never defied her before. "Fine," Hoa said. "You don't go in, and you're fired."
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