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    Queen Bee
    Queen Bee
    Queen Bee
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    Queen Bee

    By Keith Brooke

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    Colvin Stark only ventures out from the domed city of Vishwan because Joanie has left him. She's fled to Chorale, a settlement deep in the jungle of the colony planet Rhapsody, a world where native and Terran biochemistries clash and compete. Most Rhapsodian lifeforms are harmless; many induce hallucinations, euphoria or sheer, irreversible insanity; some are deadly. Stark must brave them all if he is to find Joanie, but worst of all he must confront his own destiny.

    Traditional science fiction with a contemporary spin, Queen Bee showcases the short fiction talent of an author described by Locus as belonging in "the recognized front ranks of SF writers".

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherinfinity plus
    Release dateSep 25, 2011
    ISBN9781465745149
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      Queen Bee - Keith Brooke

      Queen Bee

      Keith Brooke

      Published by infinite press at Smashwords

      © Keith Brooke 1997, 2011

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      Queen Bee was first published in Interzone (1997) and is collected in Keith Brooke's Liberty Spin: tales of scientifiction.

      ~

      Smashwords Edition, Licence Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      No portion of this book may be reproduced by any means, mechanical, electronic, or otherwise, without first obtaining the permission of the copyright holder.

      The moral right of Keith Brooke to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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      Queen Bee

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      Queen Bee

      Colvin Stark stood alone by his overlander trike on the rough road to Chorale. He had only ventured out because Joanie had left him.

      Vishwan Dome was behind him, its monocarbon shell covered with tangles of native vegetation and non-motive fauna. All around him, the giant, bifurcating structures of the local tree analogues loomed, fronds crackling and hissing in the wind. Their multiple trunks were coated in the slimy fibroid growths of the larval phases of the myriad fliers which circled around his head as he stood, indecisively, on the fringe of the jungle. He hadn't left the dome since coming down to Rhapsody two years

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