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    Fearful Symmetry
    Fearful Symmetry
    Fearful Symmetry
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    Fearful Symmetry

    By John Walters

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    Visitors from Earth sent to a far planet to re-establish contact with an isolated colony discover that a group of white tigers with enhanced intelligence are terrorizing the locals. One of the visitors saves a young crippled girl from a tiger attack, and then while escorting her back to her distant village realizes that they are being hunted.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Walters
    Release dateMay 28, 2011
    ISBN9781458148087
    Fearful Symmetry
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    John Walters

    John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

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      Fearful Symmetry - John Walters

      Fearful Symmetry

      by

      John Walters

      Published by Astaria Books at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 by John Walters

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold reproduced, or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or if it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons places or events - except those in the public domain - is purely coincidental.

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      Fearful Symmetry

      When the stars threw down their spears,

      And watered heaven with their tears,

      Did he smile his work to see?

      Did he who made the lamb make thee?

      The Tiger –William Blake

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      A famous painting in New Bengal has been so extensively reproduced that there is now a copy in practically every household. It shows a young girl in a white sari, her copper skin faintly glowing, her long black hair billowing around her as if in a wind, her right hand on the head of a large white tiger. She smiles beneficently as she gazes upon the beast.

      * * *

      Kashim:

      Continuing to record this log will not, I think, break my vow. I have thought hard on this in the past day and a half, and I have come to the conclusion that though it is impressed upon strings of nanobytes it is nevertheless a

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