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Gamester [MultiFormat]
eBook by Don Sakers
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  Earth's leader tries to convince a spoiled little girl to participate in a video game tournament. Meanwhile, an invasion fleet gathers to attack a defenseless world .... (Set in the Scattered Worlds universe.)
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Questar, 1982
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2006
19 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [20 KB]
, ePub (EPUB) [27 KB]
, Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [6 KB]
, Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [156 KB]
, Palm Doc (PDB) [6 KB]
, Microsoft Reader (LIT) [70 KB]
, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [76 KB]
, hiebook (KML) [73 KB]
, Sony Reader (LRF) [35 KB]
, iSilo (PDB) [5 KB]
, Mobipocket (PRC) [7 KB]
, Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [34 KB]
, OEBFF Format (IMP) [13 KB]
Words: 1613
Reading time: 4-6 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
In the shadowy, impossible speeds of tachyon phase, the fleet of warships waited for the time when they could point their bows at the distant star and its blue-white third planet. Earth would never know what hit it....
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Michel Cinq-Mars waited politely until Dianne was done. He could not quite understand what was happening on the video screen--there were some figures obviously meant to be spaceships, and darting points of light that were missiles, "photon bombs" or some such. But everything moved strangely, as if in defiance of common sense, and the quickness of action on the screen was matched only by Dianne's flying fingers on the keyboard. Heavy subsonic music, a variety of nerve-rattling tones, and occasionally a thundering explosion sounded from the unit.
In due time all the action ended and Dianne tapped her displayed score of "61891" proudly. "I did it," she said.
"Is that good?"
"No one in the Galaxy has managed to beat sixty thousand on this game." The girl's face was alight with adolescent enthusiasm. "Ten dimensions and six different forces operating in random patterns--it took me a tenday just to learn how to play it."
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