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    In the Line of Duty

    By M.C.A. Hogarth

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    About this ebook

    When the UAV Scattersky answers a distress call, their captain is expecting a routine rescue operation and dispatches his first commander, Alysha Forrest, to manage the transfer of personnel. But naturally, things are never as easy as they seem on the surface....

    This short story won the 2003 Ursa Majors Award for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction, and was originally published in Anthrolations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM.C.A. Hogarth
    Release dateJul 22, 2014
    ISBN9781501496103
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    • 3/5
      Interesting. More about Alysha being obsessed - it would have been better (though a less exciting story) if she'd thought of those special senses _before_ she went off on her own. Her reaction to being touched was interesting, too (in light of Alysha's Fall). Not a favorite story, though I'm glad I read it.