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    Darkest Space
    Darkest Space
    Darkest Space
    Ebook26 pages19 minutes

    Darkest Space

    By Barbara Lund

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    There’s been a murder on the asteroid mining platform, Platform Eight, and Officer Cordova must find the killer - it’s her job - but this case is a little more personal than she’s admitting...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Lund
    Release dateDec 29, 2015
    ISBN9781944127039
    Darkest Space
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    Barbara Lund

    Award-winning speculative fiction author Barbara Lund has several indie-published novels, dozens of short stories, and has been traditionally published in Daily Science Fiction and L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 37 (November 2021).She won the Writers of the Future Golden Pen (2021), along with a First Place, three Silver Honorable Mentions, and two Honorable Mentions. She won the 24th Annual Critters Best Magical Realism Short Story.She's always working on new novels and short stories.Add a husband, two kids, and a martial arts obsession, and she keeps pretty busy.

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