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The Ice Dragon's Song [MultiFormat]
eBook by Bud Sparhawk
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Young Paul Levin's family is struggling to mine the ice fields on frigid Europa when an eruption kills his father. In a desperate attempt to save his mother he has to travel across the dangerous ice fields, overcoming obstacles, and overcome his own dragons.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 1998
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [370 KB], eReader (PDB) [76 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [67 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [59 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [113 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [126 KB], hiebook (KML) [196 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [82 KB], iSilo (PDB) [55 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [69 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [96 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [89 KB]
Words: 21343
Reading time: 60-85 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
The monstrous snow snake roared past Paul Levin at fantastic speed, leaving a falling mist of slush and ice behind. The mist was so dense that he couldn't even see giant Jupiter's rosy form above the horizon.
The habitat could only be a few hundred meters further, Paul thought. He cautiously skied ahead, probing the ice with the tip of his ski before transferring his weight forward.
Suddenly a massive jolt shook the ice pack. He was violently thrown off his feet and tossed about. It felt as if all of Europa had shifted beneath him. He was terrified as the surface continued to tremble. Paul didn't know whether he was going to live or die as the tremors continued!
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It was only yesterday that he had been climbing the ladder to the cab of his father's harvester. From that vantage he saw four sets of snow snakes leaping near the horizon, five or six kilometers away. They were backlighted by Jupiter's ruddy glow. The snakes were particularly active today, he thought, throwing their coils high into Europa's tenuous atmosphere. Four snakes at one time were far more than usual.
From their position Paul estimated that they had to be erupting from the minor cracks that branched from the thick width of the main Sarpedon Linea, the fissure the Levins had drawn for harvesting.
Paul knew that they weren't really snow snakes. They were really the plumes from the linear geysers that routinely spewed up gases, soft ice, and particulate matter from Europa's core. They were just slush thrown up as some ice floes were squeezed together by Jupiter's massive gravitational effect.
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