They Also Serve by Mike Moscoe

Author:Mike Moscoe [Moscoe, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101617632
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 2013-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

Victoria Sterling smiled. The space fools were so stupid. They came in here so smug, acting like they knew everything, but they knew nothing! Nothing at all about how things work on Santa Maria. Victoria looked again at the public land records she’d researched. Very important pages were blank. Yes, she had that idiot Longknife with his swaggering canes. She owned him now.

Ray frowned as he cycled his workstation through the high priorities he had to keep a thumb on. The search for the “vanishing box” continued, success diminishing with each passing minute. Mary’s snatch and grab grew more complicated as the watch on her target identified more security going up around the Sterling compound. Lek and Harry were going over the rock samples recovered yesterday from up North, using everything handy and spending most of their time shaking their heads. Doc was pulling his hair out. His biopsies of tumors from Refuge cadavers showed larger ones in the rioters. He didn’t dare cut into a live one, as much as he wanted to.

A page flashed for attention. Kat’s dive through the Santa Marians database had found something. Miscarriages were double the human normal. Double! Most in the first trimester. As an expectant father, Ray had taken a very personal interest in human reproduction. Early miscarriages usually meant bad genes, nonviable blastocysts.

He started to make a note to Kat, track this over the past three hundred years. His board refreshed itself; Kat already had. The curve she passed along got a low whistle. There almost hadn’t been a first generation born here. Four miscarriages per live birth. Gardener, you almost wiped us out.

Ray went on. Chief Barber was handing out ID cards as fast as he could press them; people were lining up to get them for their entire family, and hardly noticing the card included an electrocardiac signature as well as a copper balance.

By the time Ray finished one review, it was time for another. Again he frowned at the search for the “vanishing box.” Still no miracle.

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