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Forced Perspectives – Snippet 43

Forced Perspectives – Snippet 43 *** “Pull over here,” said Harlowe. “There she stands.” “And welcomes little fishes in,” piped one of the twins in the back seat of the station wagon, “with gently smiling jaws!” Agnes Loria spoke over them. “It’s a church,” she said flatly as she eyed the building at the corner […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 04

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 04 3: DEEP SPACE The Peregoy cruiser approached the uncharted eleventh gate.  There — it showed on the viewscreen, a gorgeous lacy shimmer against the blackness of space, its sensory data creating the same incomprehensible pattern as the other gates.  David Gordon’s fists balled in excitement.  David wasn’t captain on […]

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 08

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 08 “We’ll try that, then,” decided Pausert. So they did, with Vezzarn standing by to fire the laterals and muttering about witchy stuff. It worked. They and the wrecked hulk parted company in a last ghostly puff of departing air. “I’ll set a course for Cinderby’s World, and then […]

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 07

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 07 Goth could have teleported the object out of the body, but short of cutting him open and healing him up after, the Leewit could see no way of getting it out. Cutting was indeed an option, she knew. It was one other healers took, when necessary. But she […]

Forced Perspectives – Snippet 42

Forced Perspectives – Snippet 42 The text began now to deal with a person, evidently a man, identified only as “the guru.” The guru was a rock guitarist who, according to the printed pages, “was one of the Laurel Canyon hangers-on in 1965, and had the dubious distinction of being banned from Cass Elliot’s house […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 03

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 03 2: POLYGLOT Near the sparsely-settled northern pole of Polyglot, Philip Anderson walked across the savannah away from the jeebee nest, stripping off his protective gear.  He glimpsed Tara Landry coming toward him and immediately turned around, jamming the helmet back onto his head.  But putting on all the gear […]

Forced Perspectives – Snippet 41

Forced Perspectives – Snippet 41 Vickery looked up. “It seems to start in media res.” “‘Perilous image’ is suggestive,” said Castine. “We’ll have to –” She stopped talking, for a woman had walked up to their booth and stopped. Vickery laid the printout pages on top of the coloring books. The woman had short-cropped dark […]

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 06

The Shaman of Karres – Snippet 06 Chapter 2 Touching the captain, when he slumped like that, barely able to drink the energy-brew she’d gotten out of the robochef, frightened the Leewit badly. She had allowed herself to do what the Toll pattern in her mind said was an absolute no-go for a klatha-healer — […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 02

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 02 Gordon made a face.  “Libertarians — they don’t agree on how to act, and with everybody doing their own thing, you’re never sure that one Landry’s thing won’t derail another Landry’s thing.  I don’t want to be derailed or delayed by endless discussion because everybody is equal.” “They do […]

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 01

The Eleventh Gate – Snippet 01 THE ELEVENTH GATE by Nancy Kress MAJOR CHARACTERS ON NEW CALIFORNIA Sloan Peregoy, CEO of Peregoy Corporation Sophia Peregoy, Sloan’s older daughter and chief advisor, heir to all Peregoy holdings Candace Peregoy, Sloan’s younger daughter SueLin Peregoy, Candace’s daughter and Sloan’s granddaughter, heir after Sophia Captain Luis Martinez, captain […]