751 Heavy Metals

Save Point: Heavy Metals Somewhere In The Lower Arctic "What the hell is quap?" "Quap, or qwab, is this substance that washes up on remote beaches in certain parts of South America occasionally. Like every few centuries, as a consequence of which...

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950 Tactical Demolition

Save Point: Tactical Demolition The World Of Sethuramandraki Terrowne throws himself in front of Cleo and _shifts_ as fast as he can as the grenade goes off, turning its outer shell into a spray of shrapnel that tears up dirt from the ground and...

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620 Glyptodontic Procedure

Save Point: Glyptodontic Procedure Somewhere In South America, 1980 The common glyptodont was the earliest armour-plated mammal and is the ancestor of the modern armadillo, having survived up until less than ten thousand years ago in South...

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505 The Dragon Comes Down To Georgia

Save Point: The Dragon Comes Down to Georgia Age of Black Steel The Dragon was rampaging through Georgia in the aftermath of an earlier incident, throwing terror into the souls of all that saw it, when it was distracted by the sound of music as it...

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902 The Kamikaze Fish

Save Point: The Kamikaze Fish Whenuapai Airbase, Auckland The Kamikaze Fish is a racing hydroplane flyer in the style of the novel 'Orbital Resonance', which is why it's far more fun to own than just some light aircraft of the sort that crashes...

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610 Viewpoint Like A Missile

Save Point: Viewpoint Like A Missile Somewhere in South America, 1980 Imagine your viewpoint like a missile. Imagine that, with your minds eye, you sweep forward, at first along the treetops, then down below them, following a half-made trail that...

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502 The Old New World

Save Point: The Old New World Somewhere In North America, 1500's One of her earliest memories is of playing, literally, with the bronze keys of the clavichord and the skull to keep her company. The skull is a great friend and likes to listen to...

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398 Missing Pages

Save Point: Missing Pages The Transcend Sethkill finds himself in a fathomless void where sheets of expensive white paper blow around, spinning past him in circles. He reaches out and grabs one as it passes, holding it hard against the invisible...

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395 The Epitaph Of The Dragon

Ascension: The Epitaph of The Dragon Beautiful eerie softlight of deep time falls the rain on the bare rock my sorrows the sun the bones of the creatures far below crumbled stone marks forever the fall a second sun on the last day the fire...

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885 Beyond Imagining

Save Point: Beyond Imagining The Age Of Eversion The night is as strange as the day, sort of light and mild and jumpy, and Terrowne Kilroy totes up the list of strange things that have already happened as he makes his way to the shops, as high summer...

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681 Gratuitous Tentacles

Save Point: Gratuitous Tentacles Somewhere On Exmoor, August, 1983 They lie prone just behind the rim of the slope for a few seconds, then Terrowne dares to raise his head for a swift fraction of a second, just to get a glimpse. "Holy hell, look at...

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390 In The High Places

Save Point: In The High Places The Battle Of Kalikshutra "_What is this place?" she demands, of curiosity, when they come to a height on which seven spurs of yellow-grey stone, like the bones of the world exposed, curve upward to form a cradle...

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