[nesfa-reading-group] books for voting on tomorrow

[Liz P]

Tea with the black dragon.

RA MacAvoy

Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just
doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd
hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for
years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for
her at San Francisco's most luxurious hotel. Yet she has not tried to
contact Martha since she arrived, leaving her lonely, confused and a little
bit worried. Into the story steps Mayland Long, a distinguished-looking and
wealthy Chinese man who lives at the hotel and is drawn to Martha's good
nature and ability to pinpoint the truth of a matter. Mayland and Martha
become close in a short period of time and he promises to help her find
Elizabeth, making small inroads in the mystery before Martha herself
disappears. Now Mayland is struck by the realization, too late, that he is
in love with Martha, and now he fears for her life. Determined to find her,
he sets his prodigious philosopher's mind to work on the problem, embarking
on a potentially dangerous adventure.

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Millenium

John Varley

An appalling mid-air collision between a DC10 & a 747 started it all.
Hundreds of smashed & shattered bodies were scattered among the debris.
Bill Smith & his team began the gruesome job of investigation. At first it
was just little things that didn't add up--like all the watches in the
crash having stopped one hour before it happened. And the odd sensation of
being followed & watched by people who were not there. But then Bill
started to discover things that really had no right being where they were &
found himself right in the middle of the most extraordinary conspiracy, a
conspiracy that seemed to have its origins somewhere in the far distant
future.

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Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold

Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book
he swore by; he'd helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to
the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation
of his bright new students... until that exploitation turned to something
much worse. He hadn't anticipated a situation where the right thing to do
was neither safe, nor in the rules...

Leo Graf adopted a thousand quaddies---now all he had to do was teach them
to be free.

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