Ghost’s Gambit: GALCOM Universe
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A routine training exercise on a planet turns deadly for civilian ghost expert Hope Delgado.
Armed pirates take the crew prisoner. But they miss Hope.
One woman against six, armed only with a devil blaster and a ghost to help.
Can Hope save the crew?
A page-turning soap opera short story.
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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A routine training exercise on a planet turns deadly for civilian ghost expert Hope Delgado.
Armed pirates take the crew prisoner. But they miss Hope.
One woman against six, armed only with a devil blaster and a ghost to help.
Can Hope save the crew?
A page-turning soap opera short story.
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.
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GHOST’S GAMBIT
LINDA MAYE ADAMS
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GHOST’S GAMBIT—GALCOM UNIVERSE
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GHOST’S GAMBIT