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    Jigsaw
    Jigsaw
    Jigsaw
    Ebook38 pages

    Jigsaw

    By Douglas Smith

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    Aurora Award Finalist

     

    Humans are just beginning to explore the outer reaches of our solar system when the wormships are discovered outside the orbit of Pluto. Abandoned? Lost? Or left to be found? Found with charted wormholes in Sol System. Found with incredibly ancient yet perfectly functioning Wormer technology. Five years later, humanity is exploring the stars.

     

    But right now, Cassie Morant, ship geologist on the Johannes Kepler wormship, wishes that she was back on Earth in her tiny apartment, lost in one of her beloved jigsaw puzzles. Because that perfect Wormer technology is perfect no more. Something has gone wrong. The Kepler's orbit is decaying, and Cassie has less than twenty-four hours to solve a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle—or the entire crew will die. Cassie's good at puzzles, but this one has a piece missing. A big piece.

     

    Now Cassie has one last chance to save the ship and the man she loves. But time's running out…

     

    Science fiction, space

     

    "...a fun romp." —Publishers Weekly

     

    "...reawakened the child in me who loved to watch Star Trek characters solve the problems of mysterious races on faraway worlds. It's a nicely done puzzle-story, with a clever solution..." —Nancy Fulda

     

    "A clever story whose protagonist is as reliant on her innate curiosity and fondness for puzzles as her intelligence. It provides added depth that one can miss in short fiction." —Tangent Online

     

    "…reads very, very well in the traditional derring-do of sf adventures … shows the scope of the author's range and another favorite of mine in Chimerascope (A+)" —Fantasy Book Critic

     

    "A darkly amusing look at what can go wrong when humans use alien technology they don't fully understand." —infinityplus

     

    "Fast-paced...with a clever puzzle." —Tangent Online

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDouglas Smith
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781928048039
    Jigsaw
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    Douglas Smith

    Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of Rasputin and Former People, which was a bestseller in the U.K. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.

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      Jigsaw - Douglas Smith

      JIGSAW

      by Douglas Smith

      Aurora Award Finalist

      Humans are just beginning to explore the outer reaches of our solar system when the wormships are discovered outside the orbit of Pluto. Abandoned? Lost? Or left to be found? Found with charted wormholes in Sol System. Found with incredibly ancient yet perfectly functioning Wormer technology. Five years later, humanity is exploring the stars.

      But right now, Cassie Morant, ship geologist on the Johannes Kepler wormship, wishes that she was back on Earth in her tiny apartment, lost in one of her beloved jigsaw puzzles. Because that perfect Wormer technology is perfect no more. Something has gone wrong. The Kepler’s orbit is decaying, and Cassie has less than twenty-four hours to solve a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle—or the entire crew will die. Cassie’s good at puzzles, but this one has a piece missing. A big piece.

      Now Cassie has one last chance to save the ship and the man she loves. But time’s running out…

      ~~

      ...a fun romp.

      —Publishers Weekly

      ...reawakened the child in me who loved to watch Star Trek characters solve the problems of mysterious races on faraway worlds. It’s a nicely done puzzle-story, with a clever solution...

      —Nancy Fulda

      A clever story whose protagonist is as reliant on her innate curiosity and fondness for puzzles as her intelligence. It provides added depth that one can miss in short fiction.

      —Tangent Online

      …reads very, very well in the traditional derring-do of sf adventures … shows the scope of the author’s range and another favorite of mine in Chimerascope (A+)

      —Fantasy Book Critic

      A darkly amusing look at what can go wrong when humans use alien technology they don’t fully understand.

      —infinityplus

      Fast-paced...with a clever puzzle.

      —Tangent Online

      Table of Contents

      DESCRIPTION

      JIGSAW

      ABOUT THE STORY

      A REQUEST

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ALSO BY DOUGLAS SMITH

      THE HOLLOW BOYS

      THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD

      CHIMERASCOPE

      COPYRIGHT

      JIGSAW

      STILL IN SHOCK,

      Cassie Morant slumped in the cockpit of the empty

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