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Category:
Science Fiction
Publisher: Room 808 Press
ISBN-10: B004OEIWBC
Type: Fiction
Pages: 213
Copyright: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780983410409
Kormèr Lezàl is a young man living a double life on his planet Elmar. Privileged by birth, he seeks to correct the injustices of his feudal world by becoming a specialist in "wealth redistribution." One day he finds a most wondrous, miraculous device, which can open a portal to any place and any time in the universe he can imagine, and far beyond. During a moment of romantic indiscretion, Kormèr is forced to flee through the device. Thus begins a journey unlike any he's had before.
Jeransy is a thorny English rose seeking escape from her dystopian, oppressive world, and when she finds her means, she intends to never go back.
Anndrew is a bored teenager seeking excitement in modern-day America, which she finds in the form of an alien who promises her the trip of a lifetime.
Cecil is brilliant, driven and alone. Picked on by bullies and misunderstood by his family, he is willing to risk everything to prove himself. When fate deals him the opportunity to seize power beyond his wildest dreams, he decides that nothing will keep him from his chance at greatness. When he learns that Kormèr Lezàl is on his trail and intends to take him back to Earth... well, he's not going without a fight.
Author interview by David H. Burton:
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Excerpt
He spotted her perched at the bar, and his heart leaped. Until that very moment, Kormèr’s presence here on Averia had been surreal. Seeing Sylvestra, resplendent in her snowy-white plumage, solidified the reality of the moment.
He approached her from the side, not wanting to sneak up on her. She noticed him almost immediately, her glittering black eyes turning to meet his, questioningly. He realized she probably didn’t recognize him with his moustache and beard.
||Hello, Sylvee.||
She glanced down at the dozen red hwyiite he offered her, then her eyes widened with recognition.
||KL!|| She stood and embraced him warmly.
||It’s so good to see you again,|| he said, wishing the embrace could go on.
Kormèr and Sylvestra separated finally and held each other at arms-length, smiling, studying.
||It’s good to see you well, KL.|| She spoke honestly but with an effort.
Kormèr frowned, reading her mood. ||I went over it so many times and always came to the same conclusion. I had to leave.||
||You could’ve handled it better,|| she said, her words biting but mitigated by the passage of time. In that sentence he knew that he’d done the right thing. She had moved past him at some point during the last few years and had gone on with her life. Things had worked out as well as he could have hoped, given their circumstances.
||I was younger then, less wise. But even now I can’t imagine how I was brave enough to leave you sleeping that morning. It would have been impossible to say goodbye to you had you been awake.||
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