The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Harry Turtledove

Author:Harry Turtledove
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: War stories, Military art and science, Anthologies (multiple authors), Space warfare, General, Science Fiction, American, Imaginary wars and battles, Science fiction, English, Military, Fiction, Short Stories
ISBN: 9780345439895
Publisher: Ballantine Pub. Group
Published: 2001-05-01T08:23:14+00:00

DRAGONS. THAT WAS what people called them. To ordinary people, there was nothing, nothing except the shiver of planoforming and the hammer blow of sudden death or the dark, spastic note of lunacy descending into their minds.

But to the telepaths, they were Dragons.

In the fraction of a second between the telepaths’ awareness of a hostile something out in the black hollow nothingness of space and the impact of a ferocious, ruinous psychic blow against all living things within the ship, the telepaths had sensed entities something like the dragons of ancient human lore, beasts more clever than beasts, demons more tangible than demons, hungry vortices of aliveness and hate compounded by unknown means out of the thin, tenuous matter between the stars.

It took a surviving ship to bring back the news—a ship in which, by sheer chance, a telepath had a light-beam ready, turning it out at the innocent dust so that, within the panorama of his mind, the Dragon dissolved into nothing at all and the other passengers, themselves nontelepathic, went about their way not realizing that their own immediate deaths had been averted.

From then on, it was easy—almost.

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