The Loss Queen (Approaching Infinity Book 5) by Eisenlauer Chris

Author:Eisenlauer, Chris [Eisenlauer, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Everything had gone quiet. Everything had gone still. Something inside him, something alien, cried out, though, and rallied, refusing to allow the dark to creep in and blot out all else. Biggs heard the cry and returned to his senses, and for the first time in his short life, was assailed by doubt. What was going on? How was this possible? Surely Merasec couldn’t have been wrong about Holson. What were these resources he was bringing to bear? Holson must have received some augmentation from the Loss Queen, some unquantifiable thing that increased his existing powers. How else could he have defeated Gran Ketz in a single stroke? How else could Holson have invalidated his Copy Army?

Biggs thought these things in the front of his mind, but in the back, in the places he didn’t like to go, where reason and logic and empirical truths sometimes swam but rarely rose to the surface, he couldn’t help but marvel at Holson’s strategy, using Rommel the way he had, or at his facility with AI. Somewhere in the back of his mind, the thought that he might be outclassed wriggled and splashed about. A building sense of anger, of frustration took on substance. It wasn’t fair. He’d been promised a place in Viscain history. His name didn’t matter, not if he could lay claim to Holson’s identity, not if he could be the hero, briefly fallen here on Planet 1612, only to rise again, stronger than before, the hero responsible for ushering in the era of The Place with Many Doors.

He could feel the seed over his heart, exerting a terrible pull upon him. He wasn’t done yet. He still had the means.

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