The Mammoth book of Best New Science Fiction 22nd Annual Collection
“appears elsewhere in this anthology. In this one he takes us to a distant world that’s littered with the ruins of vanished civilizations to unravel an enigmatic – and deadly – biological mystery.How MARILYN CARTER first met Ana Datlovskaya, the Queen of the Hive Rats: late one afternoon she was driving through the endless tracts of alien tombs in the City of the Dead, to the west of the little desert town of Joe’s Corner, when she saw a pickup canted on the shoulder of the rough track, its hood up. She pulled over and asked the woman working elbow-deep in the engine of the pickup if she needed any help; the woman said that she believed that she needed a tow truck, this bloody excuse for a pickup she should have sold for scrap long ago had thrown a rod.“I am Ana Datlovskaya,” she added, and stuck out an oily hand.“Marilyn Carter,” Marilyn said, and shook Ana Datlovskaya’s hand.“Our new town constable. That incorrigible gossip Joel Jumonville told me about you,” the woman said.
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