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    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    As a long-time embedded reporter, Khalil thinks he’s seen it all. But during his latest assignment—against an enemy he doesn’t understand and in a conflict he understands less—Khalil finds himself in the middle of the action, but not in the way he expected. And he quickly realizes that what lies beneath the surface on this ice-covered planet will change his life, and the lives of many others, forever.

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch draws on her background as a professional journalist to pen this transformative tale that superbly captures the friction between the press and the military and demonstrates that valor can be found in the least expected places.

    “Kristine Kathryn Rusch is one of the best writers in the field.”
    —SFRevu

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateJan 22, 2016
    ISBN9781311039170
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. She publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov's Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award.   

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      Embedded - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      We cover from a distance:

      Embedded in the unit, not part of the unit. Observers who occasionally get an arm slammed across their chest like a three-year-old about to run into traffic. We see all, understand little, and report next to nothing.

      Welcome to the life of the embedded reporter.

      I thought it’d be so glamorous. Sixteen tours later, five wars, thirty war zones, I’ve seen nothing glamorous. I’ve seen a lot of dirt, dust, blood. Too many severed limbs and even more severed lives. Lost lots of friends; lots of personal enemies, too.

      Got pelted with shrapnel, nearly lost my own arm, held a colleague while she died screaming in pain. Then left that war zone to go to a bloodless conflict fought by computers and robots, and thought I’d go mad from boredom. Games are more exciting: even though they’re pretend, they at least have virtual blood.

      I realized I wanted to see blood. Real blood. Then I worried that I had gone blood mad.

      And then, ironically, I arrived here.

      ***

      I’d heard about LaDucci in a sideways kinda way. Men were taken out of Basic and sent to LaDucci training. Not too terribly unusual: soldiers were taken out of Basic all the time and rerouted to more specialized training. Not even the gender specificity was unusual: some conflict zones suited some genders better than others.

      Women take down the Enfelz with almost no effort, but men get no traction at all. Something to do with the biological makeup of both species. Men were part of the attack force heading to Enfelz, but only in support positions.

      Just like men and women were in support positions for the Hanen, where the gender neutrals who preferred to remain in that twilight between the gender they were born with and the gender they should’ve been born with, fought with a ferocity (and a success rate) not equaled in any other field of battle.

      Men got the LaDucci, and the rumor was that it was because men partnered better, but I’d never seen that. Humans were humans—some partnered with other humans just fine and some sucked at

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