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Authors: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

 

 

 

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch

 

THE RETRIEVAL ARTIST SERIES:

The Disappeared

Extremes

Consequences

Buried Deep

Paloma

Recovery Man

The Recovery Man’s Bargain
(Novella)

Duplicate Effort

The Possession of Paavo Deshin
(Novella)

 

The Anniversary Day Saga:

Anniversary Day

Blowback

A Murder of Clones

Search & Recovery

The Peyti Crisis

Vigilantes

Starbase Human

Masterminds

 

Other Stories:

The Retrieval Artist
(A Short Novel)

“The Impossibles” (A Retrieval Artist Universe Short Story)

 

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Copyright Information

 

Starbase Human

Book Seven of the Anniversary Day Saga

 

Copyright © 2015 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Published by WMG Publishing, Inc.

Parts of this book appeared in different form in
Asimov’s SF Magazine,
March/April 2015, and in
Fiction River: Pulse Pounders,
edited by Kevin J. Anderson, WMG Publishing Inc., January 2015

Cover and Layout copyright © 2015 by WMG Publishing

Cover design by Allyson Longueira/WMG Publishing

Cover art copyright © Nicholas Burningham/Dreamstime

 

This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Over Thirty-Five Years Ago

One

Two

7.5 Years Before Anniversary Day

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Eighteen

Nineteen

Twenty

Twenty-One

Twenty-two

Twenty-three

Just Before The Peyti Crisis

Twenty-four

Twenty-five

Twenty-six

Twenty-seven

Twenty-eight

Twenty-nine

Thirty

Thirty-one

Thirty-two

Thirty-three

Thirty-four

Thirty-five

Thirty-six

Thirty-seven

Thirty-eight

Thirty-nine

Forty

Forty-one

Forty-two

Forty-three

Forty-four

Forty-five

Forty-six

Forty-seven

Forty-eight

Forty-nine

Fifty

Fifty-one

Fifty-two

Fifty-three

Fifty-four

Fifty-five

Fifty-six

Fifty-seven

Fifty-eight

Fifty-nine

Sixty

Sixty-one

Masterminds Sample Chapter

About the Author

The Retrieval Artist Series

Copyright Information

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