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    Questing Beast
    Questing Beast
    Questing Beast
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    Questing Beast

    By Ilona Andrews

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    On a world far far away, where cute things eat computers and the sky is emerald green, a small team of scientists struggles to save the planet and their own careers by mixing genetic engineering and Arthurian legend. Too bad they had forgotten the first rule of planet exploration: Nature always has the last laugh.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIlona Andrews
    Release dateMay 16, 2010
    Questing Beast
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    Ilona Andrews

    “Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian, and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. Contrary to popular belief, Gordon was never an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was never the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him. They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. (Gordon is still sore about that.) They have co-authored four New York Times and USA Today bestselling series: the urban fantasy of Kate Daniels, rustic fantasy of the Edge, paranormal romance of Hidden Legacy, and Innkeeper Chronicles. They live in Texas with their two children and many dogs and cats.

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      Cute, light-hearted nerd fun. I’m definitely sharing this with my sci-fi and Arthurian myth loving sister-in-law. Clean enough to share with my middle school aged nephew, too.

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    Questing Beast - Ilona Andrews

    QUESTING BEAST

    By Ilona Andrews

    Published by Ilona Andrews at Smashwords

    Copyright 2010 Andrew Gordon and Ilona Gordon

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    In the green glow of Nemurian midnight, the food stain on the geosurvey graph blazed electric orange. Sean Kozlov dragged his hand across his face in a vain hope some of his fatigue would stick to it and groped the surface of the desk for a pen.

    The pen felt moist and cold. Suspiciously like a nose.

    He looked up just in time to avoid a long pink tongue aimed to lick him right between the eyes. The trogomet scooted onto the graph, sniffed the food stain, and flopped on top of it, a two-foot wide ball of rust fur, equipped with four hands-feet and a shrew muzzle studded with tiny black eyes.

    Sean yawned. Gods, he was tired. He reached to scratch the furry trogomet stomach. Two surveys left. Half an hour of work, then he would enter the last of the data into Snow White, and then he would finally sleep.

    His hand froze.

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