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Essef - When the rows of Olympians march in Achens, Jillian Shomer will have to make a terrible decision - life, death, victory. With victory comes glory. But an intense price will be extracted from both the winners and the losers, because within seven years, 97% of them will be dead. For Jillian, the stakes are the entire world.
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Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jeery Pournelle and Steven Barnes was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
Born in Los Angeles in 1952, Steven Barnes began writing at the age of five, and since that time has published over two million words. His first published collaboration, "The Locusts," was nominated for the 1980 Hugo award, and his Outer Limits episode "A Stitch In Time" was nominated for a Cable Ace Award and won an Emmy for Amanda Plummer. He also wrote a one-woman show based on the life of Bessie Coleman (the first Black Aviatrix), been the Kung-Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine (he holds dan rankings in Judo and Karate), and served as the host of the world's longest-running science fiction radio show, Hour 25. Currently living in Washington State with his wife, Novelist Tananarive Due and his daughter Lauren Nicole, Steven is working on a series of novels set in prehistoric Africa, for which he recently spent two weeks on Tanzania's Serengeti plain.
Born in Los Angeles in 1952, Steven Barnes began writing at the age of five, and since that time has published over two million words. His first published collaboration, "The Locusts," was nominated for the 1980 Hugo award, and his Outer Limits episode "A Stitch In Time" was nominated for a Cable Ace Award and won an Emmy for Amanda Plummer. He also wrote a one-woman show based on the life of Bessie Coleman (the first Black Aviatrix), been the Kung-Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine (he holds dan rankings in Judo and Karate), and served as the host of the world's longest-running science fiction radio show, Hour 25. Currently living in Washington State with his wife, Novelist Tananarive Due and his daughter Lauren Nicole, Steven is working on a series of novels set in prehistoric Africa, for which he recently spent two weeks on Tanzania's Serengeti plain.
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- PublisherTor Science Fiction
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0812510836
- ISBN 13 9780812510836
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. BORIS VALLEJO (illustrator). MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. CONDITION: NEW The Olympiad is for those with enough confidence in their own abilities to risk everything even death. That peculiar, uncoachable capacity for confidence produces champions. Enables a human being to put everything on the line. That s one definition of a warrior, isn t it? We don t have wars anymore. But some people still need, and want, to test themselves against the very best. I know you are one of those people, Jillian, or you wouldn t be here. To those who risk much, much will be given. Jillian Shomer had won the right to compete in the Eleventh Olympiad. She and her competitors were the best and brightest, three thousand of the finest minds and bodies that had ever strode the planet. Yet within a few short years, ninety-eight percent of them would be dead. Only a handful would survive to take their place among Earth s ruling elite. The rulers of the 21st century had created a nearly perfect system of government: A world free from war, disease, and want, dominated by global corporations, managed by omniscient artificial intelligences. And they d created a nearly perfect system for selecting its future leaders: A new kind of Olympics that tested the mind as well as the body. To win this coveted prize, the athletes used the most advanced technique available to medicine: The Boost, an operation that conveyed brilliant intellect and superhuman strength at a terrible price Once Boosted, there followed burnout. The mind and body suffered mental and physical disintegration and death in just a few short years. The only way to halt the effects of the Boost was connection to the Link, the global information network that sustained the world. And only those who won received the Link. Seller Inventory # BB10R13_00745
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