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eBook Category: Science Fiction Locus Poll Award Nominee
eBook Description: The powerful colonies of Mars, Mercury, and the Jovian moons have triumphed in a devastating war against Earth, and the vanquished home planet is a wasteland of genetically poisoned refugees and provisional government oppression. As a girl during the conflict, Sitta enjoyed the safety of her privileged community on the far side of the moon--made possible by her father's supply of genetic weapons to the colonies. Later, as a teenager, she is sentenced to three years of involuntary servitude in a Terran work camp for her role in a foolish prank intended to extinguish the last tissue samples of an insect from the vanished Amazon. Now, upon her return to the moon, she carries a Terran child in her womb, and a secret plan of revenge.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimovs, 1995
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2001

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Words: 15611
Reading time: 44-62 min.
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Sitta couldn't recall when the prank had seemed fun or funny, though it must have been both at some time. She couldn't remember whose idea it was. Perhaps Varner's, except the criminality was more like the Twins or Pony. It was meant to be something new, a distraction that involved all of them, and it meant planning and practice and a measure of genuine courage. Sitta volunteered to tackle the largest target. Their goal was to quickly and irrevocably destroy an obscure species of beetle. How many people could boast that they'd pushed a species into oblivion? Rather few, they had assumed. The crime would lend them a kind of notoriety, distinctive yet benign. Or so they had assumed.

The ark system was built early in the war. It protected biostocks brought from the earth in finer days; some twent