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    Selling Short
    Selling Short
    Selling Short
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    Selling Short

    By Raymund Eich

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    Constricted by the Afrocentric culture of his home habitat, New Liberia, computer tech Marqus jumped at the chance to join the crew of Coronado for a slender share of the ship's small profits.

    In a time of crisis spanning the solar system, Coronado's Captain Garcia announced a highly profitable venture—harvesting helium from the sun for delivery to the terraformers of Venus. But pursuing great profits brought on great risks. Not only the risks of the fiery, turbulent outer layers of the sun, but the wrath of the government of Jupiter's moons, if it found out.

    Everything on board Coronado changed, when Marqus found evidence of a Jupiter spy on board the ship....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCV-2 Books
    Release dateNov 3, 2011
    ISBN9781465980441
    Selling Short
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    Raymund Eich

    Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction and fantasy, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.In a typical day, he may talk with university biology and science communication faculty, silicon chip designers, patent attorneys, epileptologists, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter.

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      Selling Short - Raymund Eich

      The freighter Coronado’s conference room had a hardwood floor and leather chairs. Reflected light smeared over the polished ebony table as Marqus sat. No one else had arrived yet. His hands slid over the wood, and six hundred yards below the floor the ship’s fusion drive rumbled. He smiled a giddy grin. New Liberia, his home, five space habitats orbiting Saturn’s moon Titan, lay two hours behind the ship. He lived his own life now, not the one his parents wanted him to live.

      Unfamiliar bodies and voices flowed into the room. The chair to his right squeaked, and he turned to see Raveena. Hi, Marqus, she said. Welcome aboard.

      Thanks. In the flesh, she looked like the avatar she’d shown in his Virtual job interview a week before. South Asian, Raveena had a long narrow nose and thin lips. She wore a navy-blue jumper and straight black hair in a pageboy cut.

      Settled in? she asked.

      He nodded, and glanced up as more people entered the room. I’ve been in my cabin a few hours.

      All unpacked?

      One of your robots unpacked my things. The ship had fifteen robots, like pygmy centaurs with tiger-stripe plastic skin, three feet long and two feet to the shoulder. They performed service and maintenance tasks; the one that helped Marqus had climbed the walls on its gecko feet to hang his clothes bags.

      You must have brought a lot, if it took you so long.

      Not really.... Sweat trickled on his nape. In his cabin, he’d installed and primed a censorship program Captain Garcia had purchased: Sun, helium, Venus.... He couldn’t tell her that.

      Have you met everyone?

      In Virtual, yes. Eight other people sat around the table, and chatted amongst themselves. Sonoma, a pale woman, talked with Naseem, a slender Arab. The latter glanced at Marqus, with a look his ancestors had fixed on black men during slave raids centuries ago. Marqus turned away, but watched Sonoma through one of the ship’s cameras. She had high cheekbones and straight red hair. He’d never seen a woman like her. She leaned toward Naseem, and parted her full lips in a shared laugh. Some people don’t resemble their avatars.

      At the table’s head, the Chinese man, navigator Xi Qen, and Annike Olson, the financial officer, flanked Captain Garcia. The captain laughed at someone’s joke, then stood and cleared his throat. Conversations died down. Garcia stood six-feet-two, with brown eyes under thick eyebrows. His van dyke beard emphasized his jaw. First, has everyone met our new officer trainee, Marqus du Bois? We hired him at New Liberia.

      Nods ringed the table. Olson folded her arms. She’d been aloof in his interview, and he couldn’t tell why. Garcia looked at him and raised an eyebrow. —Say something,—

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