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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... rolled, Kamala burnt-orange antagonists and Kaolin oyster-white radicals alike. With Kraan's hereditary monarch enjoying a recuperative holiday in the notorious, parsecsdistant resort world, the threat of civil war had been narrowly ...
... rolled and manicured lawn. “Pretty as an android doxy sweet-talking a customer. The brothel keepers who run this pest hole made it look like paradise.” His tiger-pacing resumed. Kewart sniffed wordlessly, pouted in silence. When it ...
... rolled lithely to his feet, prepared to address whoever entered politely, or defend his charges with his life. Fingering the haft of a throwing knife through a slit in his loose-fitting gray tunic, his other hand slipped to the butt of ...
... rolled another fifty meters or more, and the android driver reined in. The strand, wide and white as before, was now absent of pavilions, patrons or android attendants. Overlooking the shoreline above sharply rising chalk cliffs, Klavik ...
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