Mind GamesConditioned to enhance an inborn ability to acutely perceive another's emotional state, Klavik, security director of a massive world ruled by the sole monarchy in neohuman interstellar society, investigates the ruler's assassination while on holiday in parsecs-distant Eden, a terraformed pleasure world operated by a distant syndicate peopled by alien exotics. A pair of royal companions force themselves upon Klavik during his sojourn in Eden, where his empathic perception “sixth sense” enables him to fasten on a nervous official as a prime suspect to interrogate, but is frustrated because his energies must be channeled toward protecting his illustrious companions. Eden's planetary director, Shatterhand, ushers the threesome into a “hall of mirrors” where nothing is as it seems. After feints and ploys designed to distract or frighten he and his charges away, Klavik senses “nibblings” at the limbic fringes of his mind, and intuits the the presence of an alien telepath. Sly mental assaults persist until his charges are taken hostage, and the ultimate confrontation erupts in a rapacious battle of wills. |
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... Kewart ab Kraan, Esemplastos, His Omnipotence XXIV, had left his consort and juvenile heir apparent, departing on a long-overdue sojourn in the resort world of Eden. The Lord Regent, Protector of the Crown during the monarch's extended ...
... spectators were desolated by the knowledge that they had been deprived not only of their hereditary sovereign, but his remains as well. The Royals struggled to sustain their regal bearing. Prince Kewart MIND GAMES Walling 6.
William Walling. The Royals struggled to sustain their regal bearing. Prince Kewart sat stiffly, knees together, unseeing eyes staring straight ahead. Proud and expressionless beside him in the ornate coach, the veiled widow who was his ...
William Walling. Shock and bereavement at losing His Omnipotence Kewart ab Kraan, XXIV, Esemplastos, had rocked the planet to its foundations. In less than three standard cycles, if the Regency were not extended, adolescent Prince Kewart ...
... of the Holy First Principle, for Change is all and all is Change. A truly vile deed has snatched His Omnipotence from our midst. Long live Kewart ab Kraan, His Omnipotence Esemplastos!” three Prime MIND GAMES Walling 9.