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The Shockwave Rider John Brunner 1975 Contents BOOK 1 THE BASIC STRAINING MANUAL. 3 BOOK 2 THE DELPHI CORACLE. 46 BOOK 3 SPLICING THE BRAIN RACE. 99 ?? BOOK 1 THE BASIC STRAINING MANUAL A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Take ‘em an inch and they’ll give you a hell. ?? DATA-RETRIVIAL MODE The man in the bare steel chair was as naked as the room’s white walls. They had shaved his head and body completely; only his eyelashes remained. Tiny adhesive pads held sensors in position at a dozen places on his scalp, on his temples close to the corners of his eyes, at each side of his mouth, on his throat, over his heart and over his solar plexus and at every major ganglion down to his ankles. From each sensor a lead, fine as gossamer, ran to the sole object—apart from the steel chair and two other chairs, both softly padded—that might be said to furnish the room. That was a data-analysis console about two meters broad by a meter and a half high, with display screens and signal lights on its slanted top, convenient to one of the padded chairs. Additionally, on adjustable rods cantilevered out from the back of the steel chair, there were microphones and a three-vee camera. The shaven man was not alone. Also present were three other people: a young woman in a slick white coverall engaged in checking the location of the sensors; a gaunt black man wearing a fashionable dark red jerkin suit clipped to the breast of which was a card bearing his picture and the name Paul T. Freeman; and a heavy-set white man of about fifty, dressed in dark blue, whose similar card named him as Ralph C. Hartz. After long contemplation of the scene, Hartz spoke. “So that’s the dodger who went further and faster for longer than any of the others.” “Haflinger’s career,” Freeman said mildly, “is somewhat impressive
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