Renegade

2077. The Pacific Northwest Free Zone may be a haven from the Executive's civil war, but it seethes with division and power struggles and is subject to paramilitary covert action teams working to destabilize its civil order. The formidable Elizabeth Weatherall, now running Security Services, is determined to capture renegade Kay Zeldin, who boldly ventures outside the Free Zone in search of dozens of missing scientists. When the two women come face to face, each risks all she has become in no-holds-barred, mortal combat.

L. Timmel Duchamp is the author of Love's Body, Dancing in Time, a collection of short fiction, The Grand Conversation: Essays, The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding), a short novel, and Alanya to Alanya, the first novel of the Marq'ssan Cycle. Her stories have appeared in a variety of venues, including Asimov's SF and the Full Spectrum, Leviathan, and Bending the Landscape anthology series, and she has been a finalist for the Nebula and Sturgeon awards and short-listed several times for the Tiptree Award. She has also published numerous critical essays in The New York Review of Science Fiction, Extrapolation, Foundation, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.