Cold Allies

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Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000244 EndHTML:0000012276 StartFragment:0000003168 EndFragment:0000012240 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/twk/Desktop/00_2015newversionebooks/Cold%20Allies_anthony_new-id5.5/bookfiles/Cold%20Allies-metadata.doc Cold Allies By Patricia Anthony Price:  $5.49 Publication: July 30, 2015 Imprint: Event Horizon Ebooks/Event Horizon Publishing Group eISBN: Copyright © 2015 Patricia Anthony Original Copyright © 1993 by Patricia Anthony Print History: Hodder and Stoughton 1995   Dedication: To Charlie Ryan, editor of Aboriginal Science Fiction, who pulled me from the slush pile and gave me his kind, tireless encouragement. And to Mary Ryan and Laurel Lucas and the rest of my extended family.   Description:   Cold Allies—Friend or Foe?   Into the crossfire of a great World War, into its last desperate struggles, a new, enigmatic player intervenes: A force of aliens who appear as Cold blue globes of light hovering over the bloodied battlefields of a dying Earth. Sometimes they save lives. Sometimes they kill ...          ... and no one knows what they want or which side they’re on.   Into the Light ...   The light halted. Gordon had the eerie sensation it was regarding him. A sort of wintry lassitude weighed him down, the same placid comfort that precedes a death by freezing. His eyes started to close. Faintly, in the back of his mind, he could hear the monotonous tap-tap-tap of sleet striking a window.          He shook himself out of the half-sleep, and his eyes popped open to darkness. He’d inadvertently shut down the CRAV. He gasped. Violently he jerked his head twice to the right. The vision field came back. The blue light was closer, right at the fence; and he could sense, as he could feel his robot arms and treads, the light’s intense curiosity.          “Arm missiles!” he screamed. The heads-up display sprang into life. The blue light was square in the center of the kill box. The words MISSILES ARMED, MISSILES ARMED marched in red across his vision. He touched the stud in the little finger of his left glove and tried to bring it into contact with his thumb. His hands were shaking like a drunk with the d.t.’s.          Jesus God. He didn’t have the strength to push his fingers together hard enough to fire.   Review Quotes:    COLD ALLIES — winner of the prestigious Locus magazine readers’ poll for best first novel of the year.   “The best first novel of 1993 ... The perspectives keep switching like turns of a kaleidoscope ... vivid prose, masterful plot handling, and an overall humane intelligence. Read it!” — Locus   “Gripping and realistic ... an assured, imaginative, and distinctive debut.” — Kirkus Reviews   “An enormously capable first novel ... so fluidly readable that I went through the whole thing in one sitting. It should herald the beginning of a major career.” — Darrell Schweitzer, Aboriginal Science Fiction   “Stirring ... an original blend of political intrigue and unique speculations on alien first contact.” — Booklist   “Scary and exciting” — Ursula K. Le Guin   “Absorbing ... gripping and realistic ... assured, imaginative, and distinctive.” — Kirkus Reviews   “A gripping near-future thriller with a unique air of mystery.” — Washington Post Book WorldVersion:1.0 StartHTML:0000000244 EndHTML:0000004746 StartFragment:0000003486 EndFragment:0000004710 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/twk/Desktop/00_2015newversionebooks/Cold%20Allies_anthony_new-id5.5/bookfiles/Cold%20Allies-metadata.doc Bio: Patricia Anthony published her first science fiction novel in 1992 with Cold Allies, about the arrival of extraterrestrials in the midst of a 21st Century Third World War. This was followed by Brother Termite, Conscience of the Beagle, Happy Policeman, Cradle of Splendor, and God's Fires, each of which combined science fiction plots with other genres in unconventional ways. Several of her short-fiction works were republished in the 1998 collection Eating Memories. Her 1998 mainstream novel Flanders is the highly metaphysical story of an American sharpshooter in World War I.   Anthony's best-known and most critically acclaimed work is probably 1993's Brother Termite, a tale of political intrigue told from the perspective of the leader of extraterrestrials who have occupied the United States.