Two short stories by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, set in the universe of the popular Mageworlds series.
In one, a pair of free-spacers have more fun on shore-leave than they really wanted when their ship touches down in the wide-open asteroid town On Suivi Point.
In the second, a murder, a mystery, and academia mix with surprises aplenty during A Death in the Working.
"On Suivi Point" first appeared in Cosmic Tales: Adventures in the Far Future, T. K. F. Weisskopf, ed. Baen Books, 2005. "A Death in the Working" first appeared in Murder by Magic, Rosemary Edghill, ed., Warner/Aspect, October 2004.
Debra Doyle has a doctorate in English literature. Together, she and James Macdonald have written numerous sf/f books. They live in Colebrook, New Hampshire.
This book is two short stories. I liked the first one very much. It was an incident mentioned in one of the Mageworlds novels. I did not care for the second story.