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The Glass Lady

A Novel

by Douglas Savage
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Rapid Response Team Memorandum
Top Secret/Do Not Photocopy
To: Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO)
From: U.S. Space Defense Operations Center, Colorado
Situation Report: Unmanned Soviet Kvant-3 space laboratory destroyed by defective U.S. Orbital Weapons Platform. Communications inoperative. Soviet retaliation imminent unless immediate action taken.
Target: U.S. Low-power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (LACE)—the most powerful weapon in orbit. Equipped with SECRET hydrogen-fluoride, five megawatt chemical laser, LODE 4-meter firing mirror, and Teal Ruby AFP-888 aiming mechanism.
Current Status: 38 degree circular orbit at 130 nautical miles FULLY ARMED AND OUT OF CONTROL.
Operation: U.S. astronauts Colonel William Parker and Lt. Commander Jacob Enright to fly Space Shuttle Endeavor in mission to deactivate LACE.
Risk Factor: HIGH
Special Orders: In event of mission failure, U.S. shuttle crew to be terminated with EXTREME PREJUDICE.
Brief: Presidential briefing NOT RECOMMENDED.

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