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".
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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.
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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