STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 18:
Chapter Five
The face in Aivars Terekhov's mirror was thinner and gaunter than the one he remembered. In fact, it reminded him of the one he'd seen when he'd been repatriated to Manticore as a returning prisoner-of-war. The last two months might not have been as bad as that nightmare experience, but they — and especially the last six and a half weeks of them — had still left their imprint, and his blue eyes searched their own reflection as if seeking some omen of the future.
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1635: THE DREESON INCIDENT – snippet 13:
Chapter 8
Magdeburg
“Come on in. Good lord, Ed. You’re sopping wet.” Claire Hudson, Mike Stearns’ executive assistant and all-around handywoman, threw a towel at him.
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SLOW TRAIN TO ARCTURUS – snippet 39:
Kretz wondered if he'd been cataclysmically stupid. They'd made no attempt to take the cuffs off his wrists and had transported him in the same cage-vehicle, and left him sitting in it for long enough for curious faces to peer from windows.
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1635: THE DREESON INCIDENT – snippet 12:
Chapter 7
Grantville
State of Thuringia-Franconia
Dear Nathan,
Chandra Prickett wished that she still had a pencil with an eraser on it. She still had plenty of pencils. There had been a lot of pencils around the house when the Ring of Fire hit. A whole ceramic pot full of pencils of various lengths. Plus a hand-cranked pencil sharpener, which still worked and didn’t show any signs of quitting. And, when she had looked around and made an inventory of their stuff, a lot more pencils here and there. Like two in the kitchen, one fastened to the refrigerator with a magnet and one tied onto a hook screwed into the wall by the sink where she kept her grocery list.
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SLOW TRAIN TO ARCTURUS – snippet 38:
Chapter 17
Extract from the Transcript of the Slowtrain funding debate of Lower House, SysGov.
"Tolerance breeds tolerance. The only thing a tolerant society should not tolerate are things which impact on the lives, liberty and happiness of its citizens, such as, for example, bigots. Personally I think shipping them out of the system is a wonderful idea."
Carmen Albert, Representative for Ceres-West
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Kretz found some comfort in a female dominated society. Mind you, so far he'd seen little or no evidence of it being any more rational. In his world, Miran females were older, and once they'd got over the hormonal riot of change-over, more stable. These females didn't have that advantage.
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STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 17:
"May I ask exactly why you're telling me this?" she asked after a handful of seconds.
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1635: THE DREESON INCIDENT – snippet 11:
Johann Conrad Kastenmayer, generally known as Cunz for all purposes other than his formal, legal, signature, was surprised that he had been invited to this meeting.
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STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 16:
Michelle obeyed the polite command. The chair was just as comfortable as it had looked, and she leaned back into its embrace, looking back and forth between Theisman and Pritchart. The President returned her gaze for a few moments, then turned her head to look at the bodyguard standing behind her.
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This will be the last snippet from By Schism Rent Asunder, since the book should be appearing in the bookstores around now. Eric
BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER – snippet 127
Icy rain pelted down from a midnight-dark sky, although it was technically still an hour or so before official sunset. Wind lifted sheets of water, blowing it into the faces of anyone foolish enough to be out and about in it and weaving delicate veils of dancing mist where it whipped the water cascading from eaves.
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SLOW TRAIN TO ARCTURUS – snippet 37:
Howard decided not to even venture onto the vanity of the body-paint. Or the fact more clothes could only improve some people's physical attractiveness. Instead he tried another tack. "My companion. The alien Kretz," asked Howard. "What are you going to do with him? He needs to get back to his own kind, Ma'am Judge."
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