[bksvol-discuss] SUBMITTED: Reflex by Steven Gould
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:21:34 -0500
This is a sequel to Junper, which is already on Bookshare.
Uploaded as an RTF file. It's been spell checked and proofread, and it's
had the headers stripped. 381 pages.
Gerald
Davy has always been alone. He believes that he's the only person in the
world who can teleport. But what if he isn't?
When Davy was a young teen, he discovered that he was capable of
teleportation. At first, it was only when he was terrified and in horrible
danger. Davy gradually learned to use and control his powers, for sheer
survival in an environment more violent and complex than he ever imagined.
But mere survival was not enough for Davy. He wanted to know if there were
other people like him. He needed to know if his mother disappeared so
completely from his life because she, too could Jump. As he searched for a
trace of anyone else with powers like his own, he learned to use his
abilities for more than escape and theft. And in time, he found a woman who
could share his life and his secrets.
Now a mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to
hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him for help. What
they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own
purposes, whether Davy agrees or not. And so they set about brainwashing him
and conditioning him. They have even found a way to keep a teleporter
captive.
And yet there?s something that nobody knows, not even Davy. The secret is
that experiencing teleportation, over and over again, can teach a person how
to do it. Davy's wife, Millie, is the only person on Earth who has
teleported nearly as often as he has. On the day that Davy was kidnapped,
she discovered her new talent. Trapped in their cliffside cabin, in a place
that is accessible only by teleportation, she attempted to make the climb
down and fell. In that moment, facing imminent death, she suddenly found
herself in her own apartment.
Now, if she can learn to control this ability, and fast, she may be able to
rescue Davy.
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