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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories Driven by Soul-Crushing Debt
Date: 7 Aug 2024 21:34:03 GMT
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In article <v90nvm$3bmoo$1@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>On 7/22/24 15:28, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 7/22/2024 9:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> And for my 500th piece at ReacTor (formerly tor dot com)
>>>
>>> Five SFF Stories Driven by Soul-Crushing Debt
>>>
>>> Some heroes are chosen by gods or wizards; others are just trying
>>> to escape desperate perilous financial straits and survive a broken 
>>> system...
>>>
>>> https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-driven-by-soul-crushing-debt/
>> 
>> We are back to the zero for five for me.
>> 
>> I would add "Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, 1)" by Ilona Andrews to this list.
>>     https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Hidden-Legacy-Ilona-Andrews/dp/0062289233/
>> 
>> Lynn
>> 
>> 
>	The title is "Minimum Wage Magic" by Rachel Aaron.
>  The protagonist is one Opal Yong-we who is having a bad string of 
>luck, you will find out why.  She must keep up payment son her debt to her
>Dragon Father/owner or go back to his creche and do only what he wants.
>	Aaron has invented the Detroit Free Zone which exists after
>Magic returns(?) to Earth.
>

I reviewed that one a while back.  Fun book.

I think Magnus Ridulph took cases due to being dead broke a few times.
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