Black Hole Sun
David Macinnis Gill
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0061673048
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Durango is playing the cards he was dealt. And it’s not a good hand.
He’s lost his family.
He’s lost his crew.
And he’s got the scars to prove it.
You don’t want to mess with Durango.
The Obsidian Blade (Klaatu Diskos, Book 1)
Homeworld (Harry Harrison's To the Stars, Book 1)
My brain stem with a jolt of static electricity. “Wake up. One horrible, disfiguring death was enough. I do not need a repeat performance. Wake up!” “Ouch!” Reflexively, I slam both forearms against the sides of the tube. My descent rate slows. “Deceleration maneuver in progress,” Mimi says. “Good recovery, cowboy.” My teeth chatter. “Th-thanks. F-for no-no-thing.” The fabric that coats my symbiarmor sops up the friction from the tube walls, but it can’t do anything about a jolt of electricity.
“Maybe,” I say. “It’d be their right, seeing as how they’d been deceived.” “But what about you?” she says, “Would you stay?” She takes my hands in hers. They’re cracked like old leather, the rough, creviced hands of a miner. A lifetime of hard labor and pain is in them, and I know that her lies have nothing to do with the vow I made. “I promised to fight the Dræu for you,” I say. “I started this job, and I intend to finish it.” Even if kills me. “Which,” Mimi says as I turn to go, “it.
The ruddy color away and highlighting the pockmarks on his cheeks. When he speaks, his voice full of the sound of gravels and dust, I don’t know him. “I’m Leroy Jenkins, you cark-sacking cannibals! Bring it on!” “Fuse,” I say. “Step Four?” “Right,” Fuse says, intent on the Dræu who rushed in to kill Jenkins. “Close the front gate.” I make the call. Two containers drop. Boom! Boom! Trapping the Dræu inside. Howling in rage, they begin firing. But they have no targets. “Chief,” Fuse says. “We.
Acolyte davos, and my first skirmish was against Eceni. She won that time. She won every time we matched up. But this is a real battle, not a student exercise. When we reach the edge of the maze, I signal Ebi to halt. We drop low, and both of us scan the Cross for targets. That’s when Ebi shoots me in the back of the head. The force of the blow knocks me forward, and I fall to hands and knees. Roll to my back. “Permission to fire now, chief?” Ebi says. “Mimi,” I say, my head a hive of noise.
They?” Eceni takes the chigoe queen in both hands and shakes her like a petulant child. “Where are the Big Daddies? Why are there only babies?” I stand up. “Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size?” Eceni sighs and turns slowly toward me. “Jakey. You found me. How unlucky for you. I was just about to take my treasure and go home.” “I’m not so sure about that.” Vienne follows me into the chamber and circles back until she’s standing in front of the largest tank of chigoes. “Sorry to.