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The Impossibles: A Retrieval Artist Short Story

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By Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Published by WMG Publishing
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Published: Sep. 13, 2012
Words: 12,672 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301860036


Short description

To pay off her law school debts, Kerrie works in the public defender’s office at the Interspecies Court. She has more clients than she can defend, most of them from cultures she does not understand. The public defender’s office loses almost all of its cases, but sometimes it gets a win. Kerrie thinks she has a winner. But does she? Or will winning the case mean she loses at everything else?

Extended description

To pay off her law school debts, Kerrie works in the public defender’s office at the Interspecies Court. She has more clients than she can defend, most of them from cultures she does not understand. The public defender’s office loses almost all of its cases, but sometimes it gets a win. Kerrie thinks she has a winner. But does she? Or will winning the case mean she loses at everything else?

“Here’s Rusch’s genius: She doesn’t confine herself to the rules of any one genre. She does world-creation and social criticism like the best sci-fi writers; she creates crime stories that would be Best Episodes on Law & Order or CSI; and she creates stories of human relationships that rank her with the finest character writers working today.”

—New York Times bestselling author
Orson Scott Card

International bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won or been nominated for every major award in the science fiction field. She has won Hugos for editing The Magazine of Fantas.. (Read more)

Tags

mystery, politics, lawyers, space opera, science fiction, aliens, pirates, hardboiled, legal thriller, retrieval artist, judicial system, multicultural tribunals, interspecies court, the black fleet, interstellar politics, starbase

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