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TORCH OF FREEDOM — Snippet 14

Chapter 7

“I don’t mean to sound skeptical,” said Jeremy X, sounding skeptical. “But are you sure you’re not all just suffering from a case of EIS?” He pronounced the acronym phonetically.

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Dragon’s Ring — Snippet 02

Chapter 1

A few yards in front of Meb, the green headland dropped away to the sea far below the fractured basalt of the cliff. The wind carried the shriek and mew of the gray-backed gulls swooping out from their cliff-nests. That should have been a warning to her.
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TORCH OF FREEDOM — Snippet 13:

Herlander had glanced at Harriet for a moment and seen the mirror of his own intensely interested expression on her face. Then they’d both looked back at Fabre.
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Dragon’s Ring — Snippet 01

DRAGON’S RING by Dave Freer

Prologue

The dragon flew above the rage of the elements. Above the tumultuous maelstrom of ocean swirling into the void. Above the sheet lightnings and vortexes of dark energies released as the tower fell, with the vast granite masonry shattering into swirling dust.
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TORCH OF FREEDOM — Snippet 12:

Chapter 6

Herlander Simões landed on the air car platform outside his comfortable townhouse apartment. One of the perks of his position as a Gamma Center project leader was a really nice place to live barely ten kilometers from the Center itself. Green Pines was a much sought-after address here on Mesa, and the town house didn’t come cheap. Which undoubtedly explained why most of Green Pines’ inhabitants were upper mid-level and higher executives in one or another of Mesa’s many business entities. A lot of the others were fairly important bureaucrats attached to the General Board which officially governed the Mesa System, despite the fact that Green Pines was a lengthy commute, even for a counter-gravity civilization, from the system capital of Mendel. Of course, Simões had realized long ago that having the long commute’s inconvenience to bitch about to one’s fellow government drones actually only made the address even more prestigious.
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TORCH OF FREEDOM — Snippet 11:

Zachariah snorted in agreement, and Jack grinned. He didn’t know anywhere near as much as he wished he did about what was going on inside the Maya Sector. It wasn’t really his area of expertise, and it certainly wasn’t his area of responsibility, but he had his own version of Zachariah’s ability to put together seemingly unrelated facts, and he’d come to the conclusion that whatever was happening in Maya, it was considerably more than anyone on Old Earth suspected.
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TORCH OF FREEDOM — Snippet 10:

January, 1920 PD

Chapter 5

“So,” Zachariah McBryde asked, watching the head of foam rise on the stein he was filling with the precision of the scientist he was, “what do you think about the crap at Verdant Vista?”
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TORCH OF FREEDOM — Snippet 09:

Chapter 4

Thandi Palane closed the door of her suite in the palace behind her, and then moved over to stand next to the man sitting at a large table by the window overlooking the gardens below. He seemed to be studying the gardens intently, which was a bit peculiar. The gardens were practically brand new, with more in the way of bare soil than vegetation — and what vegetation did exist was obviously struggling to stay alive.
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TORCH OF FREEDOM — Snippet 08:

In the event, the “official royal leave-taking” was as informal as Cathy could have asked for. There were only a handful of people present in Berry’s audience chamber to see her off. Berry herself, Princess Ruth, Web DuHavel, Jeremy X and Thandi Palane. Web and Jeremy were old friends, and while Ruth wasn’t — prior to this trip to Torch, Cathy had only exchanged a few words with her at royal functions on Manticore — she felt quite familiar because of Cathy’s long-standing ties to the Winton dynasty. Those ties had become politically strained over the years, but they were still personally relaxed.
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Since By Heresies Distressed is now out, this is the final snippet. Drak (acting on Eric’s behalf)

BY HERESIES DISTRESSED — Snippet 52:

“And seduced all their daughters,” Windshare added with a grin. “Besides, we’re supposed to do it my way — you know, charge straight in and smash everybody up instead of trying to get fancy.”

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