Feral Curse (25 page)

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2014 by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Epigraph © 1987 by Robert A. Heinlein
© 2003 by The Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust, reprinted with permission by The Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust
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First electronic edition 2014

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2013946609
ISBN 978-0-7636-5910-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7636-7040-5 (electronic)

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