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ANDREA CORT. War criminal. Genius. Outcast. Heroine. Sent to the home-world of the Zinn, a once-powerful race now on the long path to extinction, she's expected to sign the approval for a simple prisoner transfer -- but why are the Zinn so eager to take custody of an unremarkable human murderer? What brutal crime is being planned against an innocent? What hidden agenda threatens to topple the balance of power? This Nebula-Award nominated novella is the earliest adventure of Andrea Cort, heroine of the Philip K.Dick Award winning novel, EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD. Other Andrea Cort stories available from JABberwocky: The Coward's Option (and Tasha's Fail Safe)Unseen Demons Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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With Unclean Hands is the first tale about Cort chronologically, though not the first written.It is still early in her career, and Cort has been given an easy task: she must pass judgment on a deal to trade a human criminal to the Zinn in exchange for some of the valuable technology this much more advanced race has developed. The Zinn are millennia ahead of humans, but are inexplicably dying; the whole species has retreated from what was once an enormous interstellar empire. No one knows why they want a human criminal, but they are prepared to keep him in a good deal more comfort than humans would afford him, even if he is kept isolated from both Zinns and humans. Cort is under pressure to approve the trade when she meets a Zinn child named First Given. And that chance brief meeting leads Cort down a treacherous path to understanding.
Castro sets his puzzle up and then unravels it with care. The story packs a potent emotional punch. Cort is a character unlike just about any I’ve encountered over a lifetime as a Constant Reader. It’s no surprise that it was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2011. I’m looking forward to working my way through the rest of her adventures.
Originally published at http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/sfm-castro-greenblatt/. ( )