Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

The 13th Immortal

"_Who was your father?_" the mutant asked Dale Kesley. And try as he might, Kesley could not remember; his past was an utter blank. But he knew one thing--the answer to his life's riddle lay in Antarctica, the once frozen continent, now an earthly paradise surrounded by an imp...

Chapters

1. Part 1

"_Who was your father?_" the mutant asked Dale Kesley. And try as he might, Kesley could not remember; his past was an utter blank. But he knew one thing--the answer to his life...

2. Part 2

For four years, he had been persuading himself that he had come from Kansas Province. He had gone on thinking that, all the while subliminally aware that there was no rational r...

9. Part 9

He was no longer in the _same_ room that he had been in in Mutie City. He was sure of that, too. The big-skulled mutant named Edwin had lifted him--_teleport_, Spahl said?--and...

4. Part 4

Now the priest wore a simple black surplice and mitred hat and carried the crook symbolic of his office. He was a small, rotund man with dark olive skin and a thin, sharply-hook...

3. Part 3

His foot struck--but as it did, someone else hit him from behind and knocked him off balance. He slipped, rolled over and tried to pull himself up. Three men were on him in an i...

7. Part 7

The road veered suddenly and split into a network of forks. Almost without thinking, he grabbed the south fork and urged the horse on. He didn't know the country at all down the...

6. Part 6

Clamping together his tattered sleeve over his flesh-wound, Kesley rode out and toward a mounted policeman who sat stiff and proud in his green-and-gold uniform, looking down on...

5. Part 5

Probably not, Kesley thought balefully. From what he had already deduced of the workings of the Immortal mind, it was hardly likely that any two Dukes would share a behavioral p...

8. Part 8

"The City of Wiener was officially founded on August 16, 2058, by Darby Chisholm, C. Edward Gronke, H. D. Feldstein, David M. Kammer, and Arthur Lloyd Canby, professors of cyber...

10. Part 10

"I want to tell you why I came to see the Duke, van Alen. I mean that--I came to see the Duke as Duke, and the fact that he turned out to be you doesn't matter a damn to what I'...