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    Iron Monk
    Iron Monk
    Iron Monk
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    Iron Monk

    By Melissa Yuan-Innes

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    Two Shaolin monks exiled to outer space try to keep up their traditions, including kung fu, on their way to answer an alien communication signal. But when Little Tiger falls ill, they must reinvent their approach in order to survive.

    "[A]n intriguing story of a group of Chinese dissidents sent on a treacherous space mission to contact aliens in the outer Solar System..."
    D. Douglas Fratz, sfsite.com

    "A doomed mission to meet a group of aliens who may or may not exist is made more problematic when the crew begin to exhibit signs of radiation sickness. It's an effective piece of traditional SF re-energized by flashes of Chinese culture. Recommended...."
    Colin Harvey, Suite 101.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlo Books
    Release dateJul 6, 2011
    ISBN9780986835650
    Iron Monk
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    Melissa Yuan-Innes

    Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada. She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan. "Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." --Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel "Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker" --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's "Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original." --Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_

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      Iron Monk - Melissa Yuan-Innes

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      Iron Monk

      By Melissa Yuan-Innes

      Cover art foreground copyright 2004 by Yun Du & background copyright 2008 by Extince

      Published by Olo Books

      Copyright 2011 by Melissa Yuan-Innes

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      Are we going to die? asked Little Tiger. He bounced on his toes and hesitated, knees bent, as the hook and eye soles of his boots nearly ripped free of the practice mat.

      After three weeks, he still hadn't adjusted to low gravity. None of us had, but I'd hoped a child would adapt more quickly.

      I forced a laugh. It echoed off the stainless steel spaceship walls instead of being mellowed by the elm floors and wool carpets of our temple. What makes you think that?

      He made a face. In the movies, Chinese heroes always die.

      I nodded. It was true. I distracted him by spinning in whirling horse stance, raining blows at his heart.

      He ducked.

      My own hook and loop soles tore free from the practice mat as momentum propelled me into space. I somersaulted off the opposite wall of the ship and touched my boots back down neatly on my side of the mat.

      Little Tiger smiled his appreciation. The entire mat stood less than two meters squared. It was the maximum mat size I could fit in our ship lounge/dining room, by collapsing the main table. Shaolin kung fu could theoretically be practiced on a table top, but my balance still hadn't quite adapted to space.

      I blinked, trying to force tears onto my dessicated eyeballs. As

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