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Biological Threats and Terrorism : Assessing the Science and Response Capabilities : Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine; Board on Global Health; Forum on Emerging Infections; Leslie A. Pray; Adel A. F. Mahmoud; Stacey L. Knobler is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running for her life from her bullying brother, Jentry, who has stolen her family inheritance and threatens to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole life, she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to it. It is not the valuable comet she hoped for but something even more wonderful, an abandoned Cycler starship.Since the discovery of a faster-than-light drive, unfortunately operable only between larger stars, the Cycler Compact civilization has gradually dwindled. It's much cheaper for the star-based civilizations of the new Rights Economy to bypass the stops that can't be made with the new technology, and the civilizations of the brown stars are gradually sinking into anarchy and chaos. It has been decades since the last Cycler ship passed anywhere near the system in which Rue grew up. Her discovery unleashes a fury of action, greed, and interstellar intrigue as many factions attempt to take advantage of the last great opportunity to revitalize-and perhaps

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Author
Institute of Medicine; Board on Global Health; Forum on Emerging Infections; Leslie A. Pray; Adel A. F. Mahmoud; Stacey L. Knobler
Publisher
www.Fictionwise.com
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9781440225390
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Antiques & Collectibles, Fiction, Science Fiction
Rating
4.07 / 5 (960 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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