By Charles Stross
Freya Nakamachi-47 has a few significant existential concerns. She's the precise concubine, designed to thrill her human masters - hardwired to develop into aroused on the mere sight of a human male. There's only one challenge: she got here off the construction line a 12 months after the human species went extinct. no matter what else she can be, Freya Nakamachi-47 is gloriously out of date. What's extra, the inflexible social hierarchy that has risen within the two hundred years because the final human died, locations beings comparable to Freya very close to the ground. So whilst she has a run-in on Venus with a murderous aristocrat, she wishes passage off-world in a rush - and can't be too fussy approximately how she will pay her method. but when Venus was once a frying pan, Mercury is the hearth - and shortly she's going to be operating for her existence. as the task she's taken as a courier has drawn her to the eye of strong and unsafe humans, they usually don't simply wish the package deal she's wearing. they need her soul ...
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Of course, as far as Captain Desjani was concerned, Geary could do no wrong. But he still shuddered at the idea of working for a commander who kept him on-screen during an operation, demanding attention that was needed for the battle. Speaking of which, the shuttles were sliding into landings, bay doors opening and Marines in battle armor tumbling out as the shuttles kept moving so that the ground troops were spread out instead of being clumped together into a mass target. Twelve shuttles deposited twelve lines of Marines, then accelerated upward again.
Lock up Casia along with Numos and Faresa and Captain Kerestes and crazy Captain Falco. Toss in Commander Yin as well. Why do I need to keep tolerating these idiots? This fleet will be far safer if they aren’t around to interfere with me. If they’d stop challenging— Geary took a long, slow breath. Damn. I’m losing it. Where would that road end if I started down it? How many officers would I sack, making sure that only those loyal to me were in command? And once I’d sacked enough, the rest wouldn’t dare speak up to me, tell me when I was mistaken or wrong.
We deserve to know that you’ll take effective action—” Casia began. ” Geary demanded in a voice that rang through the room. Silence reigned for a moment, then Captain Tulev spoke as if to himself, though his voice carried. ” Commander Yin’s voice wavered slightly as she jumped back into the conversation. “The traditions of the fleet call for open debate and consensus among the captains. What’s wrong with wanting to continue that tradition? ” Captain Desjani had kept herself quiet up until now but finally erupted at the direct attack on Geary.
