2006 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee)
Science fiction novella. First published Asimov's Science Fiction magazine Oct-Nov 2005. Anthologized Science Fiction, the Best of the Year- 2006 Edition, Rich Horton, ed.,Prime Books 2006. Translated into Russian ESLI magazine, Moscow, May 06.
On a world where human settlers are still building a mature economy, a banker is faced with a classic situation-- an erratic, heavily indebted landowner who wants to take possession of his bank and loot its resources. Pursued by genetically altered mercenaries, Sabor must fight for his freedom while he applies all his skills at financial manipulation-- and struggles with the complications created by his feelings for his made-to-order concubine.
Length: about fifty hardcover book pages.
Genre: Science Fiction
On a world where human settlers are still building a mature economy, a banker is faced with a classic situation-- an erratic, heavily indebted landowner who wants to take possession of his bank and loot its resources. Pursued by genetically altered mercenaries, Sabor must fight for his freedom while he applies all his skills at financial manipulation-- and struggles with the complications created by his feelings for his made-to-order concubine.
Length: about fifty hardcover book pages.
Genre: Science Fiction
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