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Dealer’s Choice
Martin Clark
About the story
Dealer’s Choice” is a vignette drawn from my larger Lost Souls narrative arc, concerning a hijacked colonisation mission and the society it ultimately founded. While writing I realised it intersected with a fantasy story – Catch My Shadow– which features the ‘Powers’; body-hopping supernatural entities who guide man’s development. This sounded close enough to stored personalities being transplanted into donor bodies for a semi-crossover tale. It may be that the civilisation of Lucky Boy ultimately regresses to a pre-industrial society in a sword-and-not-quite-sorcery setting, but that’s another story...