Mighty Good Road
by Melissa Scott
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IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED — HIRE IT DONE!What does a big corporation do when a job is too dirty and dangerous for its own employees? Why hire a freelancer, of course. That's how salvage operators Gwynne Heikki and her sidekick Sten Djuro find themselves commissioned to make their way to the surface of an undeveloped planet where they are to find and return a lost cargo. Dangerous, maybe, and dirty certainly, but the job seemed simple enough — with just enough complication to make it show more "interesting": the fact that the cargo locators had failed in the crash; that the place swarmed with dangerous animals; that the worst of those animals was of almost human intelligence and more than human ferocity... But there were a few problems that the company didn't tell them about... It was almost as if their employers wanted them to fail — and to die in the process.
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sandstone78 The online (and now print) comic Dicebox reminds me strongly of the works of Melissa Scott. Both share a sense of immersion in a future society at the "ground" level, with thought to the consequences of future technology on future daily life, and both have a wide cast of both major and minor characters beyond the typical upper-class/rich/genius/military straight white men and women. I believe that those who enjoy one author will enjoy the other.
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A salvage team is sent to the planet Iadara to recover a downed craft that was holding crystal matrices. the heroine has to return to her old homeworld and overcome uncooperative natives, the weather and conspiracies within the company in order to complete her mission. She winds up being betrayed by her own brother.
It was quite a slog getting through this one.
It was quite a slog getting through this one.
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Melissa Scott is a science fiction writer. She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1961. Scott studied history at Harvard University before earning her Ph. D. in comparative history from Brandeis University. Scott's first science fiction book, The Game Beyond, was published in 1984. In 1986, she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. show more Scott received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay/Lesbian Science Fiction in both 1995 and 1996 for the books Trouble and Her Friends and Shadow Man. She is a co-founder of WaveLengths, a journal of gay/lesbian/bisexual-interest science fiction and fantasy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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