The Big Ice by Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold

Author:Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold [Lake, Jay & Nestvold, Ruth]
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi Short
Published: 2010-03-07T17:35:21.656000+00:00

Then one of them got smart, goosed up a few hundred meters for a diving shot.

Gotcha. I rolled slow to give him a sweet target.

My clothes caught fire from the proximity of the energy lance’s bolt. I twisted away, relying on the flames to take care of themselves in a moment, praying for my knowledge of the storm to pan out.

It did. Multiple terawatts of lightning clawed upward out of the clouds, completing the circuit opened by the energy lance’s ionization trail. My bogey took enough juice to fry his low-viz shields and probably shut down every soft system he had. Regardless of its ground state, there’s only so much energy an airframe can handle. Number one clown might not be toast, but he had too much jam sticking to him to be chasing me anymore.

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