![]() She, too, could feel the lure of freedom, just as she felt the warm African sun on her arms and neck, but she also knew that she was three days behind grading term projects if the bomb scare went on too long, she would miss a tutorial that would have to be rescheduled, eating up more of her rapidly-dwindling spare time. One group of young men had tied their coats around their waists like skirts and were dancing atop a parked car, ignoring an older teacher's increasingly shrill orders to cease and desist. Within minutes the wide street in front of Durban Area Four Polytechnic had become a sort of impromptu carnival, full of laughing students glad to be out of class. The man who had told her-she could never remember his name, Yono Something-or-other-was several paces ahead, vanishing into the river of students and instructors moving leisurely toward the exits. Remembering how many things had gone missing during the last scare, she retrieved the pad before walking into the hallway. "Again?" Renie set her pad down on the desk and picked up her bag. The noise of the corridor swept in with him, louder than usual. One of the other instructors pushed open the cubicle door and leaned in. GRUHOV: "The technology is still in its early stages. (visual: Doctor Konstantin Gruhov in university office) killed 17 restaurant customers in a flamethrower attack in the Serpukhov area of Greater Moscow. ![]() (visual: scorched shopfront, parked fire trucks and ambulances) VO: Convict Aleksandr Kashivili's behavioral chip suffered an unexpected failure, authorities said today after the mod-paroled Kashivili. (visual: Kashivili at arraignment in body restraints) ![]() NETFEED/NEWS: Failed Chip Leads to Murder Spree The answers will only be found in Otherland. Is he part of The Grail Brotherhood? Does he oppose them? Or, as he sits like a spider at the center of a vast web, does he have ambitions of his own? However, youth and frailty are not enough to get you excused from saving the world.Īnd Mister Sellars, a strange old man on a military base, a prisoner of both the government and his own body, may be the greatest mystery of all. As he flees from the bloody battlefields of World War I to a castle in the sky, and onward to lands beyond imagining, he must not only evade his terrifying pursuers, but solve the terrible riddle of his own identity.įourteen-year-old Orlando is also the invincible barbarian Thargorm, but only in his imagination. Paul Jonas is lost, seemingly adrift in space and time. With the heart of a poet and the soul of a shaman, he will journey with Renie on this quest into the very heart of darkness. !Xabbu is a Bushman, come to the city to learn skills which may save the spirit of his tribe. When people around her begin to die, she realizes she has stumbled onto something she is not meant to know, a terrifying secret from which there is no turning back. But when her young brother is struck down by a bizarre and mysterious illness, Renie swears to save him. Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher and the backbone of her family, proud of her African heritage, has fought all her life simply to get by. ![]() But every age has its heroes, and unusual times call for unusual champions: Fewer still are willing or able to take up the challenge of this perilous and seductive realm. Only a few have become aware of the danger. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource -its children. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. ![]() Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. “Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists.” ―Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods Now in trade paperback, the first book in the classic cyberpunk fantasy series ![]()
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