Where you find mistakes, they are mine; the good stuff was poured into my head (and out through my fingers) by the many (known and unknown) whose words, images, and videos tried to fill the vast caverns of ignorance.
DEL REY BOOKS BY ELIZABETH MOON
Cold Welcome
Trading in Danger
Marque and Reprisal
Engaging the Enemy
Command Decision
Victory Conditions
Oath of Fealty
Kings of the North
Echoes of Betrayal
Limits of Power
Crown of Renewal
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Former Marine ELIZABETH MOON is the author of many novels, including Echoes of Betrayal, Kings of the North, Oath of Fealty, the Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy, Victory Conditions, Command Decision, Engaging the Enemy, Marque and Reprisal, Trading in Danger, the Nebula Award winner The Speed of Dark, and Remnant Population, a Hugo Award finalist. After earning a degree in history from Rice University, Moon went on to earn a degree in biology from the University of Texas–Austin. She lives in Florence, Texas.
Copyright
Cold Welcome is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2017 by Elizabeth Moon
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
DEL REY and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Moon, Elizabeth, author.
Title: Cold welcome / Elizabeth Moon.
Description: | New York : Del Rey, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016035820 (print) | LCCN 2016045700 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101887318 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781101887325 (ebook)
Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera. | FICTION / Science Fiction / High Tech. | FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure. | GSAFD: Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3563.O557 C65 2017 (print) | LCC PS3563.O557 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016035820
Ebook ISBN 9781101887325
Book design by Christopher M. Zucker, adapted for ebook
Cover design: David G. Stevenson
Cover illustration: © Mike Bryan, based on a photograph © Michael Frost
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