The idea drifted through Dominic’s mind like an unfamiliar scent He crossed the granite lobby of ZahlenBank, eyeing the concessionaires and thinking of his father, crushed in an accident the day before. Light blazed through the glass dome overhead and bleached the scene around him. Ticket sellers...
Droplets beaded on waxy leaves, and water trickled in rivulets through the spongy biomass of soil and rot. Pools shivered beneath an icy drizzle, and bubbles rose. In the crescent-shaped pond, the dense bottom layer of fluid suddenly inverted to the surface, trapping warmer layers beneath. And th...
-DR. DANIEL RUDMAN Surf the moment. Ride the contingencies. Improvise. I woke to pitch-darkness, interrupting a nightmare about frigid, mind-numbing thunder. But it was no dream. The icy floor rang beneath me like a gong. That gunship was firing again. Sheeba! In panic, I thrust out both hands—an...
8 Shall I Tell You? WHEN THE LIGHTS came back on, I lay sprawled and dripping on a grimy floor with this guy standing over me. Massive legs and shoulders. Dirty prote uniform. He held my piton gun, checking it out I glanced around and saw shelves, boxes, trash. I was lying...