1994 Cold Allies - Ace Paperback By Patricia Anthony

Description: Very good condition. To Charlie Ryan, editor of Aboriginal Science Fiction, who pulled me from the slush pile and gave me his kind, tireless encouragement. And to Mary Ryan and Laurel Lucas and the rest of my extended family. ----------- 2 ----------- If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed any payment for this "stripped book." This is a work of fiction. The characters are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and wholly unintended. An episode of this book first appeared, in a different form, in the July, 1992 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, under the title "Blue Woofers." This Ace Book contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition. It has been completely reset in a typeface designed for easy reading, and was printed from new film. COLD ALLIES An Ace Book / published by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. PRINTING HISTORY Harcourt Brace Jovanovich edition published 1993 Ace edition / April 1994 All rights reserved. Copyright © 1993 by Patricia Anthony. Cover art by Tim O'Brien. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. For information address: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 111 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10003. ISBN: 0-441-00018-5 ACEⓇ Ace Books are published by The Berkley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016. ACE and the "A" design are trademarks belonging to Charter Communications, Inc. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ----------- 3 ----------- CHAPTER 1 AUTUMN, NEAR KSAVEROVKA, UKRAINE The artillery shell passing overhead made a noise like tearing paper. It was a huge sound, the noise God might have made rending the sky in two. "Major Shcheribitsky!" Lt. General Baranyk shouted, emerging from his BRDM scout just as the dun grass before him blossomed into fire. A heartbeat later, tardy as thunder to remote lightning, came the dull boom-booms of the strikes. "Major Shcheribitsky! What is our position?" But the major was already out of his tank, shouting into his radio phone. The spread of Ukrainian vehicles, fragile dots on the ocean of grass, was caught in a tempest of red and black, a sudden fall hailstorm of flame and deep-throated sound. No. This can't be, Baranyk thought. Everything was out of position. The Arab National Army should be east of him someplace, sandwiched between his own regiment and Gen- eral Ilschenko's. Baranyk should be flanking the enemy, not riding directly into their line of fire. Baranyk's BTR-80 personnel carriers were still load- ed, the majority of the infantry providing convenient can- non fodder. The armored BMPs traveling with them had loosed their Sagger missiles. White trails scratched the sky. 1 ----------- 4 ----------- "A scary and exciting book!" -Ursula K. Le Guin "A brilliant portrait of men and women being driven to Armageddon. Patricia Anthony is a great talent." -Walter Jon Williams "Enter a world where high-tech wars are fought by expendable human armies and those who control machines from virtual reality stations; and where the appearance of alien vampires affects the nature of war and peace...Hard to put down!" -The Bookwatch "A brilliant, fragmented vision of a desperate near-future...The quietly intruding aliens are remarkably convincing." "A real page-turner." -Locus -Jane Yolen Into the cross.fire of the next world war comes an unexpected player... a force of aliens who appear as hovering blue lights over the battlefields of Earth Sometimes they save lives. Sometimes they destroy them. And no one is sure which side they are on...

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