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In Print<\/a>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Icy Passage” _builder_version=”4.16″ header_level=”h1″ global_colors_info=”{}”]Where Science Fiction and the Occult Collide<\/strong><\/p>\n

A woman running from her magic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A man who\u2019s given up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mutant culture colonies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A doomed ship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After violent, out of control magic killed her sister and drove her father mad, Kayna Quan ran as far and as fast as she could from the mixture of Chinese and Celtic power boiling through her blood. Fresh out of residency, she opts for a tour in Antarctica. Money is short, so she hires on as medical officer aboard a Russian research vessel headed for McMurdo Station.<\/p>\n

Brynn McMichaels\u2019 stint on remote South Georgia Island is a fancy, probably overplayed, escape from a crappy breakup. He may have left an irate woman behind, but he could have picked somewhere closer to get away.<\/p>\n

When cultures of the single-celled organism, archaea, begin shifting into another form, overgrowing the bins in his lab, he\u2019s convinced the isolation got to him until a call from an old buddy at McMurdo reveals a similar phenomenon.  Intrigued, Brynn agrees to lend a hand. The weather\u2019s too uncertain to send a plane, so he hitches a ride aboard Kayna\u2019s ship, bringing his mutant culture colonies with him.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s only the beginning\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I’m basically a mountaineer at heart. I remember many hours at my desk where my body may have been stuck inside four walls, but my soul was planning yet one more trip to the backcountry.\u00a0There’s a timeless element to the mountains. They feel like old friends as I visit them, and visit them again. There’s nothing like standing on a remote pass where I’ve been before and seeing that the vista is unchanged. Or on an\u00a0equally\u00a0remote peak. Mountains are the bones of the world. They’ll prevail long after all of us are dust. It feels honest and humbling to share space with them. I hope I’m blessed with many more years to wander the local landscape. The memories are incomparable. They warm me and help me believe there will be something left for our children and their children after them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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