Wincing at Light

<– Chapter 27
John Dorian is weary.Weary unto death, and growing sleepier by the moment.His eyelids flutter as he struggles to keep them open.They’ve grown unreasonably heavy.He is reminded that it is the same physical motion by which he used to access the Strand, the virtual universe within the real, the angels dancing on the heads [...]

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<– Chapter 26 / Chapter 28 –>
Raville’s laboratory occupied the entire second floor of an unremarkable square building set indiscriminately amongst the jumbled maze of other non-descript structures that made up the station’s industrial research park. Upon initial inspection, it was not the sort of space one would envision when asked to develop a mental [...]

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<– Chapter 25 / Chapter 27 –>
They shuttled back down to the Giari Tau station within the hour, accompanied by an escort of willing Marines led by Lieutenant Sainz.The Misfit Toys were enticed to come along, though it was not a decision made without reservations, many of which Dorian assumed had something to do with [...]

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<– Chapter 24 / Chapter 26 –>
In the minutes leading up to a classic bombardment by an array ofFleisch Plasmatic Hammers, Firing Control alerts Engineering of their intention to deploy heavy weaponry by means of a white paper known as the Ordnance Compensation Estimate.This report provides a ready guideline of how many Hammers will be [...]

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<– Chapter 23 / Chapter 25 –>
Appendant to the plastisheen environmental dome that encased Giari Tau EOSO Facilty Ketus O-12 was a squat, ovoid containment shell obtainable only via a hydraulic lift that departed from the towering Administrative and Sec-Com Nexus through a reinforced flexsteel umbilical shaft.This navel-like eruption, resembling more than anything else a [...]

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<– Chapter 22 / Chapter 24 –>
Ray Morrical, captain of the Proletariat Horde, consensus leader of the fringe worlds’ leading political insurrectionist organization, and notorious geo-economic provocateur, stood on the bridge of the Magellan class battle cruiser the T.E.S. Indianapolis calmly perusing the day’s mission status log over the shoulder of Third Cycle Leet Commander [...]

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<– Chapter 21 / Chapter 23 –>
In the twilight landscape between dreams that are not dreams, and pure data that is neither foam, nor network, nor seenop fancy, Dorian finds himself on a low ridge above a sea of tall brown grass. There are no trees, no rocks, only an endless plain as far as [...]

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<– Chapter 20 / Chapter 22 –>
Beyond the broken frame of the blast doors sat the titanium-caged rig of the sonic bore, its long shaft sleek and red, its amplifier node a riot of silver and purple, like the gravid head of a seed pod.It was dormant now, but as they squeezed past, Dorian could [...]

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<– Chapter 19 / Chapter 21 –>
The bore fell still. The stabbing blat of the alarms cut off abruptly. The fading echo rolled across the concrete landscape and then disappeared altogether. Dorian started guiltily at the keen silence, the memory of sound still reverberating in his ears. The sudden emptiness was [...]

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