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Memory Blank [Secure eReader (recommended)]
eBook by John E. Stith
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  Cal Donley wakes up missing his recent memory and covered with blood. Someone else's blood. He learns that he's a computer engineer living on the L5 orbital colony Daedalus, and he's married to a tantalizing stranger. Worn on his wrist is Vincent, a watch-sized artificial intelligence who can also tell time. But Vincent is missing some of his memory, too. As Cal tries to find out what happened during his long blackout, and in particular what happened in the last few hours of the gap, people around him begin to have accidents. Fatal accidents. Pretty soon, Cal knows only one thing for certain. What he doesn't know can kill him.
"This futuristic thriller is taut and gripping, the characters are believable, and the computer's pretty human, too!"
BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY NEWSLETTER "Gave me the most realistic description of living in an O'Neill colony of anything I've read, and colony descriptions are interwoven through this fast-paced and intriguing story."
L5 NEWS
eBook Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2001
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended) - What's this?]: SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [276 KB]
All formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
eReader ISBN: 0740808036
 
Even before the man entered the room, he had known there were two bodies on the floor. A monitoring camera had told him that much. What he didn't know was that one of the bodies was not dead.
He stepped over the man nearest the exit and turned off the alarm that had summoned him. Once finished, he stooped to examine the first intruder. The man's chest was crushed. Even if that hadn't been enough to kill him instantly, the gaping wound on his forehead would have sufficed. The massive amount of blood on the man's body had resulted from the sudden large breaks in the skin, not from a single wound that had kept bleeding as the intruder slowly died. Death had not lingered here. The man was glad the victim had not suffered. The world was too full of pain already. He crouched over the second body, and only then did he realize this man was still alive. The injured man's breath was shallow, uneven. His pulse was weak. Complications. The crouching man rolled the prone form onto its back, and then looked appraisingly at it. This one was no stranger. Applying a firm but gentle pressure at the base of the jaw could make the immediate situation far simpler. It would make everything simpler. The man liked things to be simple. Instead, he rose and shook his head. There had to be another way. Maybe not so simple, but almost as sure.
Copyright © 1986 by John E. Stith
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