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Karen Osborne debuts with a lightning-fast, science fiction action and adventure combining the corporate greed of The Expanse with the underdog characters of Firefly.
Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she’ll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure.
When she and her crewmates salvage a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into a living weapon.
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“With its swiftly paced narrative, exciting battle scenes, an economic-class-based society run by corporations, an alien race straight out of Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars, and human-alien hybrid experimentation reminiscent of The X-Files, Osborne’s excellent debut will be enjoyed by science fiction adventure fans.”
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About Karen Osborne
Karen Osborne is a writer, visual storyteller, and violinist. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Fireside, Escape Pod, Robot Dinosaurs, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She is a member of the DC/MD-based Homespun Ceilidh Band, emcees the Charm City Spec reading series, and once won a major event filmmaking award for taping a Klingon wedding. Osborne lives in Baltimore, MD, with two violins, an autoharp, five cameras, two cats, and a family.