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The Final Days [MultiFormat]
eBook by David Langford
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Suppose the future were watching us, and we found a way to learn who's being watched most closely? Inevitably there are strange effects on the chemistry of fame, and of politics....
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Destinies 3:1, 1981
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [44 KB], eReader (PDB) [21 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [7 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [7 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [60 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [78 KB], hiebook (KML) [26 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [37 KB], iSilo (PDB) [6 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [8 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [36 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [14 KB]
Words: 1989
Reading time: 5-7 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
It was under the hot lights that Harman always felt most powerful. The air throbbed and sang with dazzlement and heat, wherein opponents--Ferris merely the most recent--might shrivel and wilt; but Harman sucked confidence from cameras, glad to expose something of himself to a nation of watchers, and more than a nation. Just now the slick, machine-stamped interviewer was turned away, towards Ferris; still Harman knew better than to peer surreptitiously at his own solid, blond and faintly smiling image in the monitor. Control was important, and Harman's image was imperturbable: his hands lay still and relaxed, the left on the chair-arm, the right on his thigh, their stillness one of the many small negative mannerisms which contributed to the outward Harman's tough dependability.
Gradually the focus was slipping away from Ferris, whose mere intelligence and sincerity should not be crippling his handling of the simplest, the most hypothetical questions. "What would be your first act as President, Mr. Ferris?"
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