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Where Empires Fear to Tread
Where Empires Fear to Tread
Where Empires Fear to Tread
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When an accident at a quantum physics lab transports Piper Craven to the planet Chuze, the Chuzekks call her an animal and put her in a cage. Earth is already on the roster for exploration, but since there's no evidence of intelligent life there, nobody's in a hurry...

...nobody but Zuke Gevv, that is. Zuke grabs his first chance to start mapping the pretty blue planet and even stops in at an isolated house for soup with a Human. But his unauthorized contact leads to war when the first Chuzekk disease breaks out on Earth.

Free-spirited translator Jade Massilon, imprisoned not for spying but just for being capable of it, catches the eye of a Chuzekk officer named Gyze Quejj. But mothership commander Chegg Jaigg gets in the way because he has secrets of his own to keep.

And through it all, a shadowy presence lurks in the background: an elusive figure known only as Fletcher.

Where Empires Fear to Tread (formerly Damage Control) is the introductory book to the Fletcher Variable series.

The book also contains a bonus story by Luke Bellmason.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 31, 2015
ISBN9781311944689
Where Empires Fear to Tread
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Mary Jeddore Blakney

Mary Jeddore Blakney, known as Jae, is a freelance editor and author of two novels and dozens of short stories. Her short story "The Mammal Cage" won a statewide seasonal contest. Her first book, The Foreknowledge of Terror, came out in 2011. Her second, a science fiction novel entitled Where Empires Fear to Tread, in 2015. The Thirteenth Snare: Thirteen Stories of Kidnappings, Traps and Dead-End Situations, will be released this spring. Inspired by writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Gene Roddenberry, she often writes to bring social issues to light in a relatable way. She prefers to write her books slowly and base them on meticulous research. The place Jae and her family call home is a log cabin in the New Hampshire woods. Abenaki cultural influence can still be seen there in values such as thrift, environmental responsibility and gender equality.

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