Raising Caine

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Bob Eggleton, artist extraordinaire, creature designer/consultant on the water-strider, and all-around great guy and friend;

Gerald Nordley and Stephanie Osborne, for their generous and expert input on both the planetological and biological forces that would bear upon the possibility of life on tidally locked worlds.

And Dedicated to:

My late father, John Patrick Gannon, whose love of intelligent, exacting science fiction was a powerful legacy to me. Although his interest in alterity was not very broad, it was very, very deep, and put down enduring roots in my soul as a child and in my life as an adult.

Weightless, Caine Riordan escorted the Slaasriithi ambassador to the exit of the free-floating habitation module in which they had met. Nearing the docking hatch, the slender exosapient raised one gibbonlike arm to steady its zero-gee drift and raised the other to lift a tendril-fingered hand in farewell.

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