The Deceivers by ALFRED BESTER

Author:ALFRED BESTER [Bester, Alfred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction - Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction - Adventure, Adventure, Science Fiction - General, High Tech, Space Opera, Life on other planets, Action & Adventure, Adventure and adventurers, Missing persons
ISBN: 9780671038892
Publisher: ipicturebooks
Published: 1999-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

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“So! No snatch, no kill!” He was charged with joy. “She got away from the Jinks, came here and left me the good news, like a fine considerate Virginia girl. Said message consisting of you,” he added, picking up the psycat and kissing her. “And the key.” He kissed the key.

“Now, if I dig patterns, she’s taken it on the lam to protect herself, and God only knows what disguise she’s transformed into, like the flaky Titanian girl that she is. How in hell can I find somebody who can be anybody? You?” he asked suddenly.

He disengaged his neck from the smitten psycat. “Demi? No fun and games now. Demi?”

“Qrst,” the psycat responded, halfway between a Siamese waul and a koala churr.

“Oh, come on now, love. It’s you, isn’t it?”

“Rsvp,” the psycat rauled melodiously.

“Always to doubt, never to know,” Winter muttered. “Damnation! I’ve got to find our lammister but the trouble is she don’t want to be found. Add a Jink hit to her pregnancy panic and the poor kid must be wild.”

He settled on the couch with his feet up on the coffee table while the psycat rustled on his lap, getting comfortable.

“Shhh,” he murmured. “I’m synsensing the room. Maybe something here can give me a clue.”

He sensed the Anima patterns in silence, listening to prints, pictures, furniture, souvenirs, anything Demi might have touched. Some were slow and tedious, others brisk and bright, their voices like a score of superimposed, unrelated graphs:

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