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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... Omnipotence was on site.” A rippling burble of anxiety mixed with corollary twinges of foreboding impinged upon Klavik's consciousness, reactions common in subjects under interrogation. State Security Director by appointment to the ...
... Omnipotence. Didn't see 'em myself” Having interviewed the prelates in question, Klavik had found their accounts in total agreement. His Omnipotence had ordered the clergymen to wait for him in the blockhouse below the arsenal's sealed ...
... 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 absence, had been viciously ...
... Omnipotence has spoken highly of you, praised your ability, your devotion to the Crown. I therefore have no qualms about where your loyalties lie. If, as I suspect, a Kaolin coup is in the making we must learn of it immediately.” A ...
... omnipotent sovereign, the PM took advantage of the brief respite from public scrutiny. “Their mood?” he asked in a monotone. “What do you make of it?” Tall and rangy, clad in neutral gray ... Omnipotence Kewart ab Kraan, MIND GAMES Walling 7.