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Safeguard [MultiFormat]
eBook by Nancy Kress
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eBook Category: Science Fiction Nebula Award(R) Finalist
eBook Description: Four innocent children may hold the key to our survival, or total annihilation, in this powerful and riveting new tale.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's, 2007
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2008
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [210 KB], eReader (PDB) [46 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [33 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [31 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [87 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [101 KB], hiebook (KML) [104 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [66 KB], iSilo (PDB) [28 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [35 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [63 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [51 KB]
Words: 10125
Reading time: 28-40 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
The uniformed military aide appeared at her elbow just as Katherine Taney rose from her gilded chair to enter the Oval Office. "The president will see you now," his secretary said simultaneously with the aide's statement, "Wait a moment, Katie."
She turned to stare at him. Keep the president waiting? But his face told. For a moment vertigo nearly took her, a swooping blackness, but only for a moment. She said quietly to the aide, "Another one?"
"Two more. Possibly three."
Dear God.
"Ma'am," chided the secretary, "the president is ready."
She straightened her aging back, thought a quick prayer, and went to brief the commander-in-chief. No, not really to brief--to plead, with the war-battered United States government, for compassion in the face of the unthinkable.
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