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SOUL RIDER I: SPIRITS OF FLUX AND ANCHOR
This is a work of fiction. Alt the characters and events
portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance
to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright й 1984 by Jack L. Chalker
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this
book, or portions thereof in any form.
A TOR Book
Published by:
Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
8-10 West 36th Street
New York, New York 10018
First TOR printing, March 1984
ISBN: 27298-03
Can. Ed.: 812-53-276-7
Cover art by Dawn Wilson
Printed in the United States of America
For Mike Resnick
-from. one madman to another.
ANCHOR
There was no need to tell anyone in Anchor Logh
that the man in black was dangerous. Any stringer
who rode the Flux was more than dangerousЧhe
was someone to be feared for more reasons than
one.
Cassie watched the man ride in on his huge
white horse and felt a sudden chill at the very
sight of him. She had a particular reason for that
chill, being of The Age and with the Census Celebration
barely three days away, although she didn't
really believe she was in any danger. The quota
this year was the lowest in her lifetime, thanks to
an unusually abundant harvest and a high number
of deaths among the Honored Elders, and her odds,
like all those -with her birth year, were barely one
in a hundred. In fact, only four stringers had been
invited to the Celebration this year and, it was said,
only two had accepted, the rest preferring fatter
pickings in other Anchors with more potential
victimsЧand profits. That fact alone made the appearance
of this one even more of a standout than
it normally would have been.
He was a tall, lean, muscular man with coalblack
hair and a handlebar moustache, and in
normal circumstances and with a normal background
he would have been considered a hand-
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