Genre Science Fiction. Page - 22
After the field trip to the Surface Patrol, Jafarr gets confronted by the local gang who had been harassing him for quite a while. But that is the least of his worries as in his training under his father as a repairman in the Middlecity, he comes under the attention of the People's Military--the very people whose attention he was hoping to avoid.
Treasonous humans, corporate goons, a mysterious crime scene onboard a space mine, a snuff collector, a subterranean explorer, winged sharks, a deadly robot, marooned time travellers, a marooned inter-galaxy cop and his prisoner, political intrigue during the interstellar space games, a robot armageddon, the birth of an A.I, a cyberpunk romance, and a tale about a human, an alien and an entity older than a star. Fourteen science fiction short stories from the author of A Hostile Takeover and The Blood Ring.
Zormna Clendar was minding her own business while with 'friends' at her favorite eatery known as Sandi's when she happened to see the infamous Jafarr Zeldar pointing her out to presumed rebel cohorts. On instinct she apprehends him--but her lousy luck also draws in none other than the nasty Dural Korad of the People's Military--Zormna and Jafarr's least favorite human being.