The Patron

By Linda Maye Adams

Facing ridicule and anger, painter Aurora Long flees to an artist's retreat paid for by an anonymous patron.

 

Her transgression?  She refuses an artificial intelligence implant.  Without it, her career may die. 

 

But it may be Aurora's last chance.  Does she dare risk everything to change her fate?

 

A breathtaking science fiction story on another world.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Turquoise Sunset Publishing
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393866428

Linda Maye Adams

Linda Maye Adams is published in Kevin J. Anderson’s anthology Monsters, Movies, & Mayhem.  She is the author of the military-based GALCOM Universe series, including the novel Crying Planet, featured in the 2018 Military Science Fiction StoryBundle, and is working on a superhero novel. 

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Praise for Linda Maye Adams

Linda Maye Adams’s especially delightful Alien Pizza features friendly aliens so enamored with low-budget monster movies that they make one of their own. – Publisher’s Weekly

Aurora Long’s fingers threaded through the scarlet silk scarf, the color of the last sunrise she’d seen on Earth.  She couldn’t leave the shuttle, not yet.

Most of the other artists were filing out, their voices high with excitement over the great art they were going to create at the retreat.  Worth thousands all, they salivated.  The AI chips in the back of their necks, barely bigger than her pinky finger nail, stood out as if they had been painted crimson.

She stilled her fingers.

What was it going to be like when she met the creativity aide her patron sent?  She’d turned the assistance down, but the patron insisted.  They were supposed to be a sounding board, provide you with whatever you needed, but always at a cost.  The last one hadn’t understood why she’d sat in the museum, trying to