An unmarked sedan carried Jane from Ronald Reagan National Airport to her apartment building off Dupont Circle, near Connecticut Avenue and Embassy Row. Being a United States Senator has certain prerogatives. A member of that exclusive, one-hundred-member club can phone the director of Central In...
He had a jet-powered maneuvering unit on his backpack but he also had clipped a long tether to the belt of his spacesuit. No sense taking any unnecessary chances, he firmly believed. Being exiled in this rotating beer can was bad enough; floating out to oblivion was not a fate he desired. Timoshe...
I stayed there on my knees until two of the crewmen yanked me up roughly by the armpits of my suit. I could hardly breathe. Every muscle and tendon in my body was in agony. And Rodriguez was dead. Marguerite said softly, “My mother …” She sounded exhausted, as drained physically and emotionally a...
It didn’t look like a classroom. There were nine other boys already there, sitting around in chairs that were scattered across the floor. A man of about thirty or so was sitting among them, and they were talking back and forth. “Come on in and take a seat,” the teacher said. “My name is Cochran. ...
I thought I’d tossed all my hope away, but when I stepped through the Gate, it still pinged. One of the guards slithered out of its seat, snarling as it drew forth a wand. C’mere, it hissed, it seems you’re still holding out hope. Its crusted hide was a Venus landscape up close. It brushed th...