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The Last Starfighter – Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Fox-Two! A crimson sun hung low in the sky, and a gentle wind whistled through the grass. The monsoon season in Sylvara had ended, leaving the earth swollen with rain and the Great Forest teeming with life. Nimble footsteps, barely audible over the breeze, stalked their prey, and with a single loosed arrow,…
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The Last Starfighter – Chapter 2
The Battle for Antarctica Everyone had his own reason for enlisting. I still remember the look on Mom’s face when I told her where I’d be going and what I’d be doing. To their credit, when the suits showed up to the museum and waltzed into the restoration hangar, they didn’t sugarcoat it. There was…
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The Last Starfighter – Chapter 1
Chapter 1: The Hive “In hindsight, we should have seen it coming,” the general began. It was all I could do not to stifle a yawn. He wasn’t a bad speaker per se—which was good, because the man loved to hear himself speak—but it was far too early and far too warm on the bridge…
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The Last Starfighter – Prologue
Prologue: Forty Years On A young man peered once, twice, then once more at the data strewn across his desk. Every reading confirmed it. The theory was exact, the instruments precise as a scalpel, and there was no escaping the conclusion any longer. He had solved it. Allowing himself only a brief moment of satisfaction,…