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Authors: Cassandra Rose Clarke
Tags: #Fiction, #Science Fiction, #General, #Mystery & Detective, #Private Investigators, #Action & Adventure, #Thrillers, #Suspense
Our Lady of the Ice (42 page)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A whole heaping of thanks goes out to all the people who helped shaped this book into what it has become today:
My beta reader and podcast partner in crime, Alexandre Maki, who not only helped with characters and plot, but who also reminded me where adjectives go in Portuguese.
My agent, Stacia Decker, who saw me through several drafts of this book and whose feedback was, as always, excellent—without her, this book would never have gotten to the state in which you’re currently reading it.
My editor, Navah Wolfe, who helped polish the final draft to perfection.
All my writing buddies, the Space City Critters, especially Amanda Cole, Bobby Mathews, David Young, and Laura Lam, who are always there to help me through writerly rough patches. And a special shout-out to Amanda for asking an Anonymous Internet Person for some advice on Argentine culture; any mistakes are my own, not his.
And finally, a huge thanks to my parents for supporting my writing since I was a kid, and to Ross Andrews, whose support always sees me through.
About the Author
Photo by Brittany Lincoln
CASSANDRA ROSE CLARKE grew up in southern Texas and currently lives in a suburb of Houston, where she writes and teaches composition at a local college. She graduated in 2006 from the University of St. Thomas with a BA in English, and two years later she completed her master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2010 she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, where she was a recipient of the Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund. Cassandra’s first adult novel,
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter
, was a finalist for the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award, and her YA novel,
The Assassin’s Curse
, was nominated for YALSA’s 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her short fiction has appeared in
Strange Horizons
and
Daily Science Fiction
. Visit her at
cassandraroseclarke.com
.
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* This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. * Text copyright
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2015 by Cassandra Rose Clarke * Cover photograph (woman) copyright © 2015 by Federico Bebber * Cover photographs (dome and city) copyright © 2015 by Getty Images * All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. *
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. * Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data * Clarke, Cassandra Rose, 1983– * Our lady of the ice / Cassandra Rose Clarke.—First edition. * p. cm. * Summary: “A female PI comes into conflict with a ruthless gangster just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in a domed Argentinian colony in Antarctica.”—Publisher. *
ISBN
978-1-4814-4426-2 (hardcover) *
ISBN
978-1-4814-4428-6 (eBook) * 1. Women private investigators—Fiction. I. Title. * PS3603.L372O87 2015 * 813'.6—dc23 * 2014039598
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