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    Bonds of Steel
    Bonds of Steel
    Bonds of Steel
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    Bonds of Steel

    By Ioana Visan

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    On a routine trip across the asteroid field, the robot, Del, and unregistered AI, Vee, meet trouble. With Captain Law and his crew having been put into stasis, their only chance of survival will mean placing themselves at the mercy of what few resources they have. Without a human to assist them, Del and Vee will be vulnerable and so too will the ship and all the lives on board.

    Despite their best efforts to avoid unwanted visitors, another ship is en route. Their arrival does not guarantee the safety of those on board, and may ultimately lead to their demise.

    With his position on the ship on the line, can Del stave off an attack or are their deaths inevitable?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIoana Visan
    Release dateSep 10, 2016
    ISBN9781370869169
    Bonds of Steel
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    Ioana Visan

    Award-winning writer Ioana Visan has always dreamed about reaching the stars, but since she can't, she writes about it.After fighting the apocalypse aftermath in "Human Instincts", she played with shapeshifters in “Blue Moon Café Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks”, she dealt with vampires in “The Impaler Legacy” series, and then she designed prosthetics in “Broken People” before tackling longer works like a fantasy trilogy and a science fiction series.Aside from publishing short stories in various Romanian magazines and anthologies, she published a Romanian short story collection “Efectul de nautil” and the Romanian edition of “Human Instincts”.She received the Encouragement Award from The European Science Fiction Society at Eurocon 2013.For more information, please visit http://www.ioanavisan.tk

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      Bonds of Steel - Ioana Visan

      Bonds of Steel

      Law and Crucible Saga 3

      IOANA VISAN

      Copyright © 2016 Ioana Visan

      All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Bonds of Steel

      Law and Crucible Saga #3

      Copyright © 2016 Ioana Visan

      All rights reserved.

      Cover Art by Gil Geolingo

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      First eBook Edition: December 2015

      On a routine trip across the asteroid field, the robot, Del, and unregistered AI, Vee, meet trouble. With Captain Law and his crew having been put into stasis, their only chance of survival will mean placing themselves at the mercy of what few resources they have. Without a human to assist them, Del and Vee will be vulnerable and so too will the ship and all the lives on board.

      Despite their best efforts to avoid unwanted visitors, another ship is en route. Their arrival does not guarantee the safety of those on board, and may ultimately lead to their demise.

      With his position on the ship on the line, can Del stave off an attack or are their deaths inevitable?

      Table of Contents

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      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Books by Ioana Visan

      1

      With one hand pressed against his right side, Law paused at the entrance next to the medbay and let Thea and her wheelchair pass first. Del followed them, moving slowly, faced with a big dilemma. Inside, Merrick was finishing checking the last stasis capsule. Two of them were occupied by Mia and Eradiez from the beginning of their journey, but the rest were empty.

      It’s the best solution, Vee repeated.

      It’s your insistence that puts me off, Law said.

      Oh! If I didn’t know you, Captain, I’d feel offended. Vee’s voice boomed between the bare walls then lowered to a reasonable level. "We’re heading straight to the asteroid field, and my sensors detected high levels of radiation in the area. Given the state of

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