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Deadman Switch

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1988
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39 chapters
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Copyright © 1988 by Timothy Zahn
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I'd been sitting at the window of my small cubicle for nearly an hour, listening to a Joussein symphonaria and watching the intricate drift of sunlight and shadow across the city from a hundred twenty stories up, when the call I'd been expecting all morning finally came.
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And smiled to myself as, together, we headed down the ridge.
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Slowly, I stepped into the room.  The woman watched me, and I could tell that she too had recognized our common heritage.  "Mikha," I said carefully, "I'd like to speak to Ms. Paquin alone for a moment, if I may."
He half turned to frown at me.  "May I remind you-?"

"It'll be all right," I cut him off.  My knees were beginning to tremble with a tangle of contradictory emotions.  "Please."

Kutzko looked at Calandra, back at me.  "All right.  But just for a minute."  Slipping past me, he left the room.  The door slid halfway closed, and I heard him move to the opposite side of the corridor, where he could see but not really hear us.

I took a deep breath.  "Gilead Raca Benedar," I introduced myself.  "Cana settlement, Outbound."

Her face might have flickered at the mention of Outbound.  "Calandra Mara Paquin," she nodded in return.

"From...?"

"I was raised in the Bethel settlement on Bridgeway.  If it's any of your business."

I felt cold.  Bridgeway: Aaron Balaam darMaupine's world.  For a brief, unnerving second I wondered if she might actually have been involved in that perversion... but another second and I realized how unlikely that was.  Calandra was only about thirty-eight - five years older than me - which meant she'd have been barely sixteen when darMaupine's grab for temporal power was finally overthrown.  "We're both Watchers," I reminded her.  "Committed to God and to each other.  That makes our lives each other's business."

She snorted gently.  "Sorry, but I gave up commitments like that a long time ago."

I felt a vague stirring of anger.  I was trying as hard as I could to forget her crime and accept her as an equal, and all she was doing was rubbing salt on my patience.  "Maybe the rest of us haven't given up on you," I gritted.  "Just because you ran out on your people when they needed you - "

"Oh, you think I ran out because of what Aaron Balaam darMaupine did to us with his insane vision?"

"You wouldn't have been the first," I told her, fighting doggedly to give her the benefit of the doubt.  "With all the animosity that mess generated -"

"Animosity?" she cut me off.  "Is that what you got on Outbound?  Animosity?"

I pursed my lips.  Others fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them...  "I'm sure it was a lot worse on Bridgeway.  Especially for a teenager."

 

Added: 27-Nov-2022
Last Updated: 12-Mar-2024

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 01-Oct-1988
Baen Enterprises
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Oct-1988
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$3.95
Pages*:
373
Internal ID:
12937
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-671-69784-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-671-69784-6
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
David B Mattingly  - Cover Artist
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Solitaire: a unique ring of heavy-metal moons.  For decades after its discovery an unexplained "effect sphere" kept all hyperships away from the metal-hungry galaxy's most tantalizing prize.  Until a research ship penetrated the Cloud entirely by accident - when the man at the helm died of a heart attack just before entering the sphere.  For the first time a hypership's drive did not fail as it approached Solitaire.  For the researchers the difficult part came when it was time to leave.

Now every ship heading for the Ring Mines carries two death-row felons - one for entry, the other for exit.  It's as bizarre a method as the effect it encounters, but it works... until the hero of Deadman Switch discovers that one of his condemned criminals isn't guilty....

DEADMAN SWITCH
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A Baen Books Original
First printing: October 1988

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Author(s)

Timothy Zahn  
Birth: 01 Sep 1951 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Notes:
From the Hardcover edition of Survivor's Quest:

Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars novels have more than 4 million copies in print. Since 1978 he has written nearly seventy short stories and novelettes, nineteen novels, and three short fiction collections, and won the 1984 Hugo Award for best novella. He is best known for his five Star Wars books (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, Specter of the Past, and Vision of the Future). He lives with his family on the Oregon coast.

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