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21. DR S0 FERDINAND DRINKSFERDINAND DRINKS It’s unbearable, it’s unbearable, the pain forces my mind away from itself, splitting me into a thousand shards, while I sip my Beefheart tea. This little andro cubby-bar down in Rumchi keeps me well-hidden from the humans (humans – how can they call themselves by such a name?) ...
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22. DR S1 ANDREW AND HIS FATHERANDREW AND HIS FATHER A scrawny little boy of seven raced down the City understreet in a panic. His skin flashed bronze in the overhead lamps. His huge dark eyes, glancing, sucked in everything, He dodged, weaving past a vendor jangling with jewelry, and collided with a bioandroid servant carrying ...
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23. DR S12 THEY FLITTED LIKE BIRDS IN A DREAMTHEY FLITTED LIKE BIRDS IN A DREAM Nazrelo’s group had lost Warren and eight others, leaving twelve. A search revealed two walkway corridor connections from the ship to the walls of the landing cradle, and a huge loading bay linked to the landing area by a dock extension. While Nazrelo ...
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24. DR S11 WONDERING ABOUT GULLINDERWONDERING ABOUT GULLINDER Arlen, striding in past the twisted metal faces of his doorway, read Mentrius’ broad, map-lined face, seeing downturns of disappointment at corners of mouth and eyes. This man had always been a good general: patient, thoughtful, well-organized, abruptly incisive when it served him. And loyal. Mystifying. Why ...
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25. DR S9 FROM A HIGH FAR PLACEFROM A HIGH FAR PLACE On Level 638, the doors opened into a roiling luminescent fog. Occasional beams lit it weakly, jacking the ambient light a little higher each time. They moved out into the mists. Andrew, feeling intense heat wrap him, looked at the outer lift doors; they hung ...
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26. DR S10 WE'RE HERE TO SHOPWE’RE HERE TO SHOP “What’s going on?” Deen turned to the shopkeeper, who nearly knocked her over, diving to slam and secure the door. “Shut up and help me, for the sake of the blood! Get these bars in place!” She lofted a steel bar down from a shelf. Marra ...
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27. DR S8 AND SHE CRIED FILTHY TEARSAND SHE CRIED FILTHY TEARS She had no hands. No mouth. No eyes, no feet. Marra, she said, and the darkness sucked the sound away. I’m Marra, she said, I’m where? The warmth cradled her words and said You’re home now. Sleep. And the muck sang to her and she ...
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28. DR S7 FLITTED LIKE A SHADOWFLITTED LIKE A SHADOW The door opened to a landing in a dusty stairwell. A continuous roar echoed around them, reminding Andrew of the ore loader noise. Ezzar led them down one floor to another landing. She took Cortevail’s biscuit from her pocket, along with a marker, and copied the ...
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29. DR: What's in the Virtual TarnusCity (REWRITE)DESCENDING ROAD: What’s in the Virtual TarnusCity The Tarnus of Descending Road and its World is a vast underground city. It holds halls, residences, meeting-places, factories, utilities, and all the features of such a large city. The virtual TarnusCity is just a small sample of the city described in ...
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30. DR:The Virtual Way In: How to Go Virtual (REWRITE)DESCENDING ROAD: How to Go Virtual The novel Descending Road has a three-dimensional, virtual-world walk-through illustration of one of its most important settings: the city called Tarnus. It's online as TarnusCity. Here's how you can get there and take a tour - or just wander around and click on interesting ...
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31. DR: The Living Book (REWRITE)DESCENDING ROAD: Reading on Digital Steroids You can get into “Descending Road” and its world just by buying the Kindle or paperback series. But there’s another way to try it, right here, online, in an older version that exploits some exciting possibilities of digital literature. And this version offers ...
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32. DR: The Complete SeriesDESCENDING ROAD: The Complete Series Get aboard your lander and dive onto a planet of adventure. A vast panorama awaits you in the book series “Descending Road”. The series wraps and weaves a sheaf of stories in a far world settled over twelve thousand years before by starship colonists ...
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33. DR Purpose (REWRITE)WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK The "Descending Road" set of books wraps itself around our thirst for justice, hope, and peace. That is a big wrapper. It confronts us with ourselves: Do we engineer deracinated subhumans to serve us? Do we submerge ourselves in the violent temptations of supremacy? Do ...
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34. The Visitors on the FourthThe story "The Visitors on the Fourth", also available as as short-short story in text form on the website.
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35. Realities: The VisitREALITIES: Despair and Hope 2011 THE VISIT All over the world, buried in prisons, are the souls of conscience, faith, and hope. This small work of fiction is dedicated to them. It is dedicated most of all to my innocent fellow Bahá’ís who are imprisoned in Iran for nothing more, ...
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36. Reading and writing are not going awayI've sensed an insistent undercurrent in our society that many people are not reading much, if at all. They watch the moving media: movies, shows, video clips, image collages - whatever keeps their eyes and ears tightly engaged. Here on Facebook we get 'reels', we get 'stories', we get visual ...
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37. Descending Road PurposeWHY I WROTE THIS BOOK "Descending Road and its World" wraps itself around our thirst for justice, hope, and peace. That is a big wrapper. It confronts us with ourselves: Do we engineer deracinated subhumans to serve us? Do we submerge ourselves in the violent temptations of supremacy? Do we ...
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38. Other WorkOther Work Sometimes other offerings of mine attract interest, and I make them available for download. I'll be adding some of them here. Here is one of those writings, available as a PDF file: Reading List on Racism
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39. DR Derizan Scene 60 In DarknessIN DARKNESS Scene 60 Bunjaian lugged the unconscious Guinban. Piotras, chasing close behind, tumbled into the chamber just as Mentrianos reached the pedestal and triggered the portal. A powerful temblor knocked all of them off balance; Bunjaian fell, dropping his burden, and struck his head against the pedestal’s heavy shaft. ...
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40. Writing WorldsWriting Worlds For me, J. R. R. Tolkien transformed the world of fiction writing. What does this mean? He created his own ways of telling stories. He imagined and portrayed entire worlds. He wielded storytelling language so distinctively, so powerfully, so engagingly, that legions of his readers entered his worlds ...
