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Bounty's
Stepchild
by Justin Stanchfield
52-page saddle-stapled chapbook (Military SF)
Scrybe Press
ISBN 0-9748340-2-5
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There are no clocks in the Well, no day or night. If you wake up, you
weren't dead yet.
On a far-flung planet, men and women pay the penalty for their Earthside
crimes. Petty theft or assault, it's all the same, their bodies and minds
are forfeit. Used as hosts in a never-ending war against hostile aliens,
they are given a cybernetic Assist--an interface that links them to the dead
whose personalities, skills, and knowledge have been eternally preserved.
Everything that belongs to the prisoners--their bodies, their wills, their
thoughts--is subjugated by these Assists. But without them, the prisoners
are helpless, unskilled, uneducated cannon fodder on a deadly battlefield.
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