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Facts Relating to the Arrest of Dr. Kalugin [A 'The Company' Story] [MultiFormat]
eBook by Kage Baker
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: First in a series about the Immortals of Dr. Zeus, Inc., a for-profit company that gives eternal life to mortals and sends them on historic salvage missions. Vasilii Kalugin is an Immortal sent back to 1831, posing as a Russian doctor in a Northern California village, while a salvage operation takes place not far offshore. When another Immortal arrives from The Company as a courier, his unusual behavior leads Kalugin to suspects he is one of the Flawed Ones, who were produced millennia ago, before Dr. Zeus had perfected the immortality process.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's, 1997
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2001
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [171 KB], eReader (PDB) [53 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [41 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [38 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [54 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [112 KB], hiebook (KML) [117 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [65 KB], iSilo (PDB) [34 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [43 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [71 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [61 KB]
Words: 11915
Reading time: 34-47 min.
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"Marine Operations Kalugin?" Grinning he grabbed my hand and shook it heartily. It was a wide grin, he had a wide square jaw with a wide full mouth whose front teeth were slightly gapped. I remember that he had a deep dimple in his chin and greenish eyes. His color was ruddy, his hair thick and curling. None of us look old--unless we age ourselves cosmetically--but he looked astonishingly young. "Boy, I'm glad to see you. You wouldn't believe the trouble I had getting up here," he told me. I concluded that, despite his youthful appearance, he must be one of the truly old operatives. Have you ever noticed that the older ones tend to fall back principally on Cinema Standard when mortals aren't present? I've noticed it, anyway. I suppose they do it because perhaps there wasn't any complex human language back in Paleolithic times when they were made, and so Cinema Standard became the first real language they ever learned, their mother tongue, so to speak. "Wouldn't they loan you a horse at Port Rumiantsev?" I inquired. He widened his eyes in amazement. "Were there horses for rent there? Gosh, nobody told me. Hey, that Rumiantsev place, that's Bodega Bay, isn't it? Isn't Hitchcock gonna film The Birds there?"
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