Palace: A Novel of the PinchBestselling author Katharine Kerr joins with Mark Kreighbaum to present a vivid, alluring and terrifying world of the future. They call it Palace, the capital of a planet located in a region of space known as the Pinch. Here a bitter Lep outcast has been hired to murder two humans: Arno, the son of the Master of the Cyberguild, and Vida, a young woman destined for sensual slavery in the Pleasure Sect. Arno is on the track of strange anomalies in the Map, the cyberspace repository of knowledge. And Vida has powers that could change Palace forever. As Arno goes into hiding to escape the assassin, Vida seeks refuge at Government House, the corrupt center of authority, where betrayal is a way of life and death. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 19 |
Section 3 | 70 |
Section 4 | 116 |
Section 5 | 179 |
Section 6 | 185 |
Section 7 | 233 |
Section 8 | 235 |
Section 15 | 337 |
Section 16 | 378 |
Section 17 | 385 |
Section 18 | 386 |
Section 19 | 391 |
Section 20 | 403 |
Section 21 | 432 |
Section 22 | 439 |
Section 9 | 282 |
Section 10 | 295 |
Section 11 | 305 |
Section 12 | 318 |
Section 13 | 323 |
Section 14 | 333 |
Section 23 | 449 |
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