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Blindfold [MultiFormat]
eBook by Kevin J. Anderson
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by the Truthsayers. Parentless, trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas, a telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty, Truthsayers are Justice, Infallible, and Beyond appeal. Falsely accused of murder, Troy Boren trusts the young Truthsayer Kalliana ... until, impossibly, she convicts him. Still shaken from a previous reading, Kalliana doesn't realize her power is fading. But soon the evidence becomes impossible to ignore. The Truthsayers' Veritas has been diluted and someone in the colony is selling smuggled telepathy. Justice isn't blind--it's been blinded. From an immortal's orbital prison to the buried secrets of a regal fortress, Kalliana and Troy seek the conspiracy that threatens to destroy their world from within. For without truth justice, Atlas will certainly fall....
From the Author: During the tedious insanity of the OJ Simpson trial, I thought the justice system would be so much more efficient if they depended on a perfect lie detector, in the form of a telepathic "truthsayer." Such a person could simply touch an accused person and pronounce his guilt or innocence. Simple, easy, infallible ... unless, of course, the Truthsayer decides to lie. Climbing Olympus and Blindfold were the two novels I submitted to the Frank Herbert estate in hopes of convincing them that I might be qualified to write in the Dune universe. They agreed.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: 1995
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2002
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.9 MB], eReader (PDB) [442 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [457 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [402 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [363 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [408 KB], hiebook (KML) [984 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [558 KB], iSilo (PDB) [375 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [467 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [516 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [605 KB]
Words: 130343
Reading time: 372-521 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
MobiPocket Reader ISBN: 1-59062-409-2
Microsoft Reader ISBN: 1-59062-416-5
 
"Anderson has a strong sense of dialog and character, and makes the world he's writing about come to life and mean something to you."--Other Realms "Kevin J. Anderson professed literary ambition is to write books as complicated as Frank Herbert, and his novel BLINDFOLD is a good step toward achieving his goal ... Anderson captures the tumult and the heady excitement of the tensions of a new society and, ultimately, I wouldn't be surprised if the future's history of deep space exploration reads like an Anderson book."--Andrew Asch
CHAPTER 1 I Outside the Truthsayers Guild, the crowd had already started to gather. Kalliana could hear the murmur of voices, feel the press of their excited thoughts even through the shielded walls of Guild Headquarters.They were waiting. She looked through the stained glass windows of her quarters on the third deck. She brushed pale fingers across the smooth, cool glass panes--brilliant shards of crimson, green, and blue epoxied into dull alloy tracks--as if to rub away the shadows of milling people anticipating the trial. But they would not leave, not until Kalliana had made her judgment. The people of First Landing waited in the plaza for the Truthsayer to come out, to face the accused murderer, to read the guilt or innocence directly from his thoughts. Perhaps it was the spectacle the colonists wanted, a bright entertainment, or just relief from their strenuous jobs for an hour or so. Kalliana knew they all had hard lives out there; she wouldn't have traded with them for anything. Officially, the Truthsayers Guild believed the citizens longed for a reaffirming lesson in morality, a demonstration of what would happen if they slipped from the narrow but clearly defined path of the law.... Then again, after spending so much time descending into the minds of criminals, Kalliana wondered if maybe the spectators were just thirsty for blood. The accused--a man named Eli Strone--had supposedly spilled enough blood. Raw sunlight filtered through her window to spill rainbows across the rugs that covered the cold deck plates. Her quarters, once the cabin of a high-ranking officer on the scuttled spaceship that had been converted into the Guild building, seemed safe and warm to her, a shelter from the evil thoughts of the populace at large. Every day she and the eleven other telepathic Truthsayers had to face the sins of the people, but today would be worse. Today, if the accused was indeed guilty, she would be forced to confront his memory of slaughtering twenty-three people. Kalliana wrapped herself in her white robe, clean and pure, made of bleached cotton grown here on the planet Atlas, then tied it with the emerald sash of a Truthsayer. Her petite body, fine blond hair, and translucent skin made her look like a pale angel. The cloth rustled like hushed whispers as she moved. She completed her ceremonial costume with a wide, ornate gold collar that added extra weight to her shoulders, as if her burden wasn't already heavy enough. But the formal spectacle required all the trappings of a mystical ritual. The crowd was growing restless in the plaza. Her reluctance had already made her late. She would have to face the people soon, face Eli Strone.
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