The Luvmachines : 9781434345035 : 09 Feb 2008 : Camilia is under attack again. Ordinarily, this would be no problem. A gracious and lovely diplomat's wife, she has often sluffed off many a would-be seducer--including Giovonni, the Director of the Transpossession Lab West and owner of the Spacecotheque. Giovonni claims to be the champion seducer of all time and boasts he never failed to conquer a woman he set his sights upon. But Giovonni is now using 23rd century space age technology in his new campaign against Camilia and she needs help if she is to defeat him this time. So Camilia recruits Clip, one of Giovonni's astronauts, to help her. Clip hates what Giovonni is trying to do to Camilia, but needs an important space assignment from Giovonni in order to win the Bronze Plaque award and restore his ailing father's honor. Clip sets out to accomplish both, but to do so must give up everying he holds dear--including his life on Earth. The novel moves a plethora of people onto scads of sc