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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... watched in heavy-lidded silence as the library doors closed automatically behind him. Sipping brandy, he eyed Klavik over the snifter's rim. “Well, the dismal affair is behind us. Time to get cracking.” “Agreed, sir.” “Drop the 'sir ...
... watched the lambent disc emulating Kraan' s primary dwindle within the astrogation tank, fade further in brilliance and lose itself in a clotting sea of stars. He and his unwelcome charges had left behind a world seething with anxiety ...
... watched a travelogue depicting playgrounds given over to other, sundry activities: submarine exploration in the lucid waters of underwater habitats; backpacking expeditions into one wilderness area or another; big game hunting in the ...
... watched the landau turn and clop-clop back toward the Village before he rejoined the loafing assemblage of actors, technicians, crewmen and extras. He lifted the assistant director's bullhom and called, “Okay, kiddies, let's pack it in ...
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