Laricon's Ways
by Patricia Green
It's 2120 CE. Ganymede, largest moon in the Solar System, is slowly being taken over by Jerold Laricon, an aging social scientist with designs on feudal lordship. His idea of social restructuring involves subjugating women, treating them as sex-slaves and brood mares. When things don't move quickly enough for him, he kidnaps innocents from other colonies and uses them to fulfill his labor needs. Michael O'Malley has been sent to Ganymede by the Solarian Federation to neutralize the growing problem. He's an undercover agent with good looks, brains and panache. But it's taking a helluva long time to wrap things up. While he waits for back-up troops to put the operation to rest, an old flame, blonde and curvaceous Nina Stanley, is kidnapped from Earth, destined to become Laricon's new consort. She recognizes Michael, of course, and his mission is nearly compromised. Flailing to keep things together, Michael rescues Nina from Laricon for "just long enough for the troops to get there." Laricon, in the meantime, pressures Michael to take a consort of his own, and finally, unable to put the old man off any longer, he chooses a young woman raised on Ganymede - petite, strawberry blonde, and sweetly adoring Alyssa. Somehow Michael goes from being responsible only for himself and his operation to being responsible for two women and the mission as well! When are those damn troops going to arrive?