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    Ghost Squad: Kalkin's Dilemma
    Ghost Squad: Kalkin's Dilemma
    Ghost Squad: Kalkin's Dilemma
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    Ghost Squad: Kalkin's Dilemma

    By Chris Eisenlauer

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    Viscain Empire, Year 10,500. Top student Lor Kalkin's graduation from the Locsard Psychic Academy goes off without a hitch. The day after has a catastrophic snag, however, that will forever change him and the Empire both.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Eisenlauer
    Release dateAug 13, 2011
    ISBN9781465767868
    Ghost Squad: Kalkin's Dilemma
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    Chris Eisenlauer

    Growing up in the suburbs, I was prone to constant daydreaming. On top of that, I watched way too much TV, which saturated my brain and fueled even more elaborate daydreaming. I’ve learned to bottle that to some degree and, more recently, to release it. I write science fiction pulp, borrowing often from fantasy, sometimes from horror, but always about characters wielding power on par with the challenges they face: deadly psychics, practitioners of fantastic martial arts, alien, world-consuming gods. Some of my favorite authors are Roger Zelazny, Alfred Bester, E.E. “Doc” Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Hopefully, a little of their brilliance shines through in my attempts to tell good stories.

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      Ghost Squad - Chris Eisenlauer

      Ghost Squad: Kalkin's Dilemma

      Published by Chris Eisenlauer at Smashwords.

      Copyright © 2011 by Chris Eisenlauer.

      Cover by Chris Seaman.

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      Viscain Empire - Year 10,500

      Top student Lor Kalkin's graduation from the Locsard Psychic Academy goes off without a hitch. The day after has a catastrophic snag, however, that will forever change him and the Empire both.

      Ghost Squad:

      Kalkin's Dilemma

      by Chris Eisenlauer

      1. Class

      10,499.359.1340

      Lor Kalkin sat in rapt attention, listening to the little old man at the head of the room. Kalkin didn't know why he found Taal Fanslo's classes so engaging. Perhaps it was the man's strange, youthful energy, or the total command he seemed to have of the subject matter, or maybe it was because of the personal interest Fanslo had taken in him. Of the two classes he had with Fanslo, this, Sinzer Method Projection, was the more difficult as Kalkin's discipline lent itself better to the measured release method codified long ago by the Academy's founder, Velt Locsard. But despite his own self-criticism, Kalkin was the top student in this class as well as in his other with Fanslo, Mind-Body Synergism. In fact he was top student in all his classes at the Locsard Psychic Academy, and could boast one of the highest Raw Mental Power ratings in recent years at five thousand three hundred.

      It had been a good year at Locsard. Karlan Farsal came in a close second behind Kalkin and his skills were readily recognizable, as Kalkin's were, in their value to the Empire and its expansion. The year before, Kass Orlo graduated at the top of her class, and among these three, there was

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