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The Quantum Connection
Travis S. Taylor


This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright й 2005 by Travis S. Taylor

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
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Riverdale, NY 10471
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ISBN: 0-7434-9896-8

Cover art by David Mattingly

First printing, April 2005

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Taylor, Travis S.
The quantum connection / by Travis Taylor.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original"Ч T.p. verso.
ISBN 0-7434-9896-8
1. Computer hackersЧFiction. 2. Alien abductionЧFiction. 3. MeteorsЧFiction.
I. Title.
PS3620.A98Q36 2005
813'.6Чdc22 2004029932

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Production & design by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH (www.windhaven.com)
Printed in the United States of America

I would like to dedicate this book to my first professional mentor: the late Dr. Thomas E. Honeycutt. Dr. Honeycutt devoted his career toward winning the Cold War. He taught me the difference between wanting to do good science and actually doing it. His memory will always be with me and I'm grateful for having been able to fight the last few years of the Cold War by his side in our lab in Huntsville.
We won, Dr. H.

Baen Books by TRAVIS S. TAYLOR
Warp Speed

CHAPTER 1
I just barely ducked the knife that was thrown at me by her, my nemesis, JackieZZ. I responded by slipping left, crouching, and leaping at her with all my strength focused on taking out her helmet laser. I was nowhere near quick enough, because she burned off my left hand with a full second to spare. Although it vibrated and I could feel the light shock, I tried not to let it stop me from pressing the attack. With the momentum in the fight that I had gained by the lunge, there was a chance, a good one I hoped, that I could take her now. I managed to wrap my hands, erh, hand and stump, around her backpack power supply and then I ripped it right off of her armor. Sparks flew everywhere and there was a cool-looking array of secondary explosions as I rolled off her back to the side.
JackieZZ was too damned good. For a woman with such big breasts on such a small frame, damn, and the powerful spritelike movement she had, she made it difficult to focus and I barely managed to roll out of the way of her counterstrike. I did a back flip just in time to miss a venom-spiked boot crushing through my face.