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Murphy's Gambit
Syne Mitchell

Murphy's Gambit

ROC (Nov 01, 2000)
9780451458094
| Mass Market Paperback
384 pages | 108 x 170 mm | English
LC Classification CPBBoxno.1917 .vol. 11
LC Control No. 2002568908

Genre

  • Science Fiction

Subject

  • Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • Science Fiction
  • Space Vehicles
  • Weightlessness

Plot

Thiadora Murphy is a "floater". Born and raised to withstand a zero-gravity environment, the floaters are considered the dregs of the universe -- an outcast society of space workers who have been ostracized and nearly enslaved.Murphy thought she could rise above her floater heritage. But then she was expelled from her military academy and forced to work as a test pilot for a powerful corporation. It's a job with many risks -- and questionable rewards. Because her mission requires her to steal something from a rival company -- a faster-than-light technology that could liberate floaters once and for all....