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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: A diverse collection of science fiction stories that capture the indomitable female spirit. The essence of womanhood speaks from a collection of fifteen science fiction stories welcoming the reader into the diverse female universe. Step into the world of Black Widow: The downside of genetic manipulation emerges when Linda, a naturally born teenager ostracized by society, turns the tables on her enhanced older brother during a motorcycle outing... The Cull: Battling with a crisis of conscience, Seladon, an elite commander engaged in government sponsored culling missions, rebels when her latest assignment involves the annihilation of an innocent race... Debutante: Janaar Medoun, an aspiring young woman bound by the rigid codes of her ocean-bound society of cityships, struggles for her freedom against mandatory betrothal at sixteen... Digital Anarchy: A reporter seeking the scoop of a lifetime obtains unique footage of an alien artifact. Tegan Jenner's encounter with its alien creator reveals her true destiny as a receptive, one of the few chosen to forge the destiny of humanity... Donors: Faced with widescale destruction from catastrophic acid rains, the fate of an agrarian society rests on the courage of precocious young Natty to safeguard the future of her people... Duel of Hearts: A vacation on a resort planet provides the unlikely resolution to divorce and a child custody battle between successful diplomat Naufira aen Saar and her estranged husband... Imarad: On a battle weary Earth embroiled in a protracted defensive against invaders, brother and sister commando team, Jeluth and Imarad, become the catalysts in the turning point for supremacy... Intrinsic Value: Persecuted by a paranoid society teetering on the brink of extinction, Sarah, a renegade midwife, makes a stand against the tyranny of genetic discrimination... Mantis: Gwynne Harad's attempt to save her floundering marriage plunges her into the midst of a technological revolt fueled by Mantis, her husband's revolutionary engineering marvel... Messengers: Neglected by her ambitious journalist husband, children's writer, Pam Garver, explores the nature of choice when she experiences a profoundly transformational close encounter... Millenium's Child: For Eaden, a sterile survivor of a ravaged Earth, hope is a forgotten commodity until an encounter with a fertile female compels her to seek the future in the guise of the Colony... New Woman: Obsessed with retrieving her fading youth, Beth Clayton undergoes a controversial anti-aging procedure that mires herself and her best friend in a sinister conspiracy... Outside In: In a world divided into a society of nomadic homeless and pampered city dwellers, Trin Norasako is caught in a civil uprising that reconnects her with an independence movement founded by her father... Seasonal Dreams: Tormented by a vision of an impending alien incursion on her world only she can see, Suliya's subsequent assimilation transforms her into the ultimate weapon against the invaders... Swan Song: Conscripted into a losing global battle against the sentient Thanatos scourge, disillusioned base class tracker Alyse Hain bucks the system in her quest to return home to her family...

eBook Publisher: Zumaya Publications/Zumaya Publications, Published: USA, 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2002

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.0 MB], eReader (PDB) [346 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [344 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [298 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [332 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [342 KB], hiebook (KML) [747 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [397 KB], iSilo (PDB) [281 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [350 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [425 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [450 KB]
Words: 94842
Reading time: 270-379 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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The stingers closed formation, their sites strobing a deepening tone of red. Relentlessly, they locked on their targets and descended for the kill. No larger than bullets, a soft whine emanated as the missiles blurred into elongated streaks, spooking the mare. The stallion bolted, his powerful forelegs defiantly raised to shield his cowering mate. He extended the full twelve feet of his glory, chiseled muscles corded against his velvety charcoal coat. His platinum mane flowed proudly in the thin, reedy wind-his resonant whinny a challenge.

He snorted and pawed aggressively at the air as several stingers penetrated his neck. The combined explosive charge neatly severed his massive head. His body thudded heavily to the ground in a fountain of crimson blood. The mangled remains of his head rolled a short distance away, the silken strands of his mane clotted with gore.

The mare whinnied shrilly and rolled her eyes at the sight of her mate's decapitated body. She attempted to flee, her legs buckling aimlessly. A volley of stingers pummeled her diminutive body, tumbling it in a macabre ballet of death. Her agonized bray shattered the stillness as she came to rest near the stallion's body, their blood commingling into a single, viscous puddle glinting dully in the watery light.