Orbital Burn

by K. Bedford

Overview

What would you give up if you could live forever?

In Orbital Burn, a seriously down on her luck unlicensed Stalktown Private Investigator named Louise "Lou" Meagher ekes out a sparse living solving petty crimes. She is chronically broke, clinically dead, and nervous about being evacuated from her home planet, Kestrel, which in nine days time will be hit by an unstoppable doomsday rock, known as the Bloody Bastard. But Lou takes on one last case: helping a cybernetically enhanced canine named Dog, ­locate his former master, a defective biological android boy known only as Kid...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781894063104
Publisher:	Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Publication date:	08/26/2003
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

K. A. Bedford was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1963. He attended Curtin and Murdoch Universities, and studied Writing, Theatre, and Philosophy. He lives with his wife, Michelle, near Perth, Australia. His novels have been nominated for the Australian Aurealis Award and the P. K. Dick Award. Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait won the Aurealis Award.

Editorial Reviews

"... a violent, sardonic SF yarn that harks back to Frederik Pohl's early work ... a wild, transcendental climax. Here's hardboiled SF at its finest."

- John Peters, New York Public Library -

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