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“To be honest,” he said, “most of my time was spent on a doctorate.”
Behind bars, with limited web access and no on-campus visits.
“Finance?” Hamzah asked, looking suddenly interested.
“No,” said Raf. “Alternative timelines. They’re very big in the US right now.” That, at least, was true. “It’s a way of understanding what happened by looking at what didn’t but quite easily might have done… You know, say America had actually joined the Third Balkan War…”
“They stayed neutral. So did we.”
“Not the 1966-75 conflict,” said Raf. “The Third Balkan, 1914-15.” (Grimwood, Pashazade 56)
“This thing is an appliance,” said von Bismarck. The expression on his face mixed revulsion with shock.
“An American appliance,” confirmed the box. “Upgraded by Moscow and offered exile by Koenig Pasha, with the express consent of your own superiors in Berlin. A machine linked to software, designed to win wars fought by children… Although, of course, their age was just an unexpected cost bonus. And you have this man on trial…”
“Are you saying you should be the one on trial?” St. Cloud asked silkily.
“Obviously not,” said the box. “I was thinking more that it should be all of you.”
…In the seventy-five seconds it took Claire DuBois’s talking head to hit Television 5, Hamzah mutated from a heavily armed teen psychopath to traumatized drought victim, stranded alone in the desert, trying desperately to carry out conflicting orders. (Grimwood, Effendi 395, 396)
Behind bars, with limited web access and no on-campus visits.
“Finance?” Hamzah asked, looking suddenly interested.
“No,” said Raf. “Alternative timelines. They’re very big in the US right now.” That, at least, was true. “It’s a way of understanding what happened by looking at what didn’t but quite easily might have done… You know, say America had actually joined the Third Balkan War…”
“They stayed neutral. So did we.”
“Not the 1966-75 conflict,” said Raf. “The Third Balkan, 1914-15.” (Grimwood, Pashazade 56)
“This thing is an appliance,” said von Bismarck. The expression on his face mixed revulsion with shock.
“An American appliance,” confirmed the box. “Upgraded by Moscow and offered exile by Koenig Pasha, with the express consent of your own superiors in Berlin. A machine linked to software, designed to win wars fought by children… Although, of course, their age was just an unexpected cost bonus. And you have this man on trial…”
“Are you saying you should be the one on trial?” St. Cloud asked silkily.
“Obviously not,” said the box. “I was thinking more that it should be all of you.”
…In the seventy-five seconds it took Claire DuBois’s talking head to hit Television 5, Hamzah mutated from a heavily armed teen psychopath to traumatized drought victim, stranded alone in the desert, trying desperately to carry out conflicting orders. (Grimwood, Effendi 395, 396)
