College student Nate Black is a top-notch computer hacker. But he's long since stopped the kind of hacking that could put him behind bars. Under the guise of his user i.d., Azrael, he has never been discovered. That is, until Nate gets an anonymous email, after which nothing will ever be the same...
I paced around Princess Lucille, shaking my head. “We have other things to worry about.” We had come to ground deep in the forest, in a clearing caused by a long-ago fire. It was isolated from any roads, far from any observation by brigands, cultists, or would-be knights. ...
I tried to talk to Prince Oliver again, but he wasn’t having any of it. Every attempt led to the butt end of a spear coming through the bars to collide with some yet-unbruised part of my anatomy. I decided to cut my losses while there were still parts of my body that didn’t hurt. I doubted that I...
I gave her some lame excuse, because I couldn’t bring myself to say what really concerned me. I told myself that I didn’t want to panic her, but it probably had more to do with the fact that I couldn’t admit that she might be right about this city. What really worried me was the idea that people ...
—The Cynic’s Book of Wisdom “Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” —MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) Date: 2526.7.16 (Standard) 1,750,000 km from Bakunin-BD+50°1725 Parvi stands on a plateau on one of the windswept canyons on Rubai, where the constant equator...
Neither seemed to be paying any attention to me. Good, things were complicated enough. Krys stepped up and placed a hand on Lucille’s arm. “What’s the matter?” “Give me a moment.” The sound and feel of my own thoughts emergin...
—The Cynic’s Book of Wisdom The trick to leadership is keep moving forward, even if you’re wrong. —Boris KALECSKY (2103-2200) Date: 2526.05.24 (Standard) Xi Virginis For the first time in a century, Mosasa felt as if he was floundering. The holes in the fabric of his world were growing with each ...