Her most bitter foe. Her colony's only hope?
After the EU's army of war robots overran Mexico, Francisca and her daughter gathered refugees from the ruins and fled to a new home in the asteroid belt.
But the rogues and pirates roving the belt threatened her colony, poised to plunder the vein of nearly-pure blond—rubia—platinum in their asteroid's core.
Now help comes. Help Francisca loathes to ask. A renegade European and his war robot.
The war robot that might have killed her son.
Her most bitter foe.
Her colony’s only hope?
After Europe’s army of war robots overran Mexico, Francisca and her daughter gathered refugees from the ruins and fled to a new home in the asteroid belt.
But the rogues and pirates roving the belt threatened her colony, poised to plunder the vein of nearly-pure blond—rubia—platinum in their asteroid’s core.
Now help comes. Help Francisca loathes to ask. A renegade European and his war robot.
The war robot that might have killed her son.
Also included in short story collections The First Voyages and Five From the Borderlands.
