Poison
Novella 38,565 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"A few hours before the ceasefire was scheduled to start, Captain Jarrell Dresdin and I dropped from low orbit on Aine’s night side, tasked with the final double-check. An armored dropsuit wasn’t enough to quell the terror of atmospheric entry, with only a layer of Keiretsu ChitinTech between me and flaming pressurized death."
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