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The Lion Game

James H. Schmitz (1973)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages ()
SeriesTelzey Amberdon #2
Setting
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ViolenceNot rated
Sexual contentNot rated
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Synopsis - ‘What’s the Lion Game?’ asked Telzey of her captors. ‘You’re engaged in it now,’ was their answer. It was a game of mental chess played on the intricate closed transit circuits of an entire world by a race of giant mentalists who acknowledged no allegiance to the civilized planets. Talzey was a human and, as such, a test piece either a pawn to be sacrificed or a wild queen who could make her own decisions, she was never sure which. Either way the loser would not be just one talented Earthling: the loser would be a whole civilization, and possibly a few peaceful planets as well...