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KILLER ADVICE
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s mystery novel, Hitler’s Angel, rereleased in mid-2010 in England (and available very soon in the U.S.) recently hit #1 on Amazon UK’s biographical fiction list. Kris isn’t abandoning SF, though. Her next novel set in the Diving universe, City of Ruins, will appear later this year. Her internationally bestselling fantasy series, The Fey, was released from Audible.com not long ago, and she has a new Kristine Grayson humorous paranormal romance, Wickedly Charming, forthcoming from Zebra. While Kris isn’t avoiding any genre, she does manage to combine a couple of them in her exciting new tale of murder, mayhem, and . . .
Sixteen minutes. Sixteen minutes was simply not enough time to prepare for an onslaught. One would think with the recent breakthroughs in interstellar communication that a simple heads-up would be in order. Yet no one thought to contact Hunsaker.
Of course, the communications problem wasn’t with the Presidio, who barely got off a single we need help; we’re docking soon communiqué before their entire communications array went down. No, the problem was with Repair and Maintenance. Some idiot there forgot to inform Hunsaker that his resort would soon be full.
Not that the Vaadum Resort and Casino was much of a resort. It was more of a Hail Mary pass. If you were passing through the Commons System (which was what most people did in the Commons System—pass through) and for some reason you needed to exit your luxurious spaceship for some downtime and you couldn’t wait the extra day to go to Commons Starship Resorts—which were real resorts, by the way, on full-size space stations—then you ended up at Vaadum Resort and Casino.
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Editorial by Sheila Williams: Martin Gardner
