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Jideon de Rosa is a combat cyber-medic with the Spanish Legion. After his ex-wife takes their daughter, he tracks them to North America. He finds his wife missing and his daughter suffering from a drug. Any neuro chip may activate a computer virus infecting her body, transforming the pharmaceutical into something terrible. Jideon has less than a day to find the cure, and will ignore rules of engagement to save his daughter.

Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Dystopia and uchronia

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Book Details

Language: English

Written in: 2012

Published: 2012-01-28

Word count: 5,846 words (≈ 23 minutes)

License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)

Tags: parkour, pharmaceutical, dystopian, drugs, Military, action, science fiction, short story

Biography

I am a Software Engineer and Consultant, a United States Marine, a martial artist, and an author. You can find more information about my early creative writing and ongoing open source projects on whitefrost.com. I enjoy writing hard and whimsical science fiction, adult fantasy, and poetry. As an early advocate of Creative Commons licensing, many of my short stories and poems have been available online since 1996.

If you would like to learn more about my writing, open source projects such as the Hemi JavaScript Framework, or inquire about unpublished manuscripts and shorts, please contact me at whitefrost.com.