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MINDWARP

Prelude to Earthsearch

a 120,000 word novel by

James Follett

REPRESENTATION:

Jacqui Lyons

Marjacq Scripts Ltd.

161 Bickenhall Mansions

Bickenhall Street

LONDON

W1H 3DF

Tel: 071 935 9499 FAX 071 935 9115

NB: The GoD (Guardian of Destiny) symbol above is based on the

international circuit diagram symbol of the transistor.

For George Markstein.

Mentor and friend.

Sadly missed.

Part 1: Selection

Part 2: Training

Part 3: War!

Part 4: Mindwarp

Part 5: Discovery

Part 6: Fugitives

Part 7: Escape

Part 8: Outdoors

Part 9: Flight

Part 10: Prelude

Part 11: Prologue to Earthsearch

Outdoors! Outdoors!

Full of fire and fear,

Outdoors! Outdoors!

Where sinners disappear!

Outdoors! Outdoors!

Hell fires burn within,

Outdoors! Outdoors!

Throw the wicked in!

Outdoors! Outdoors!

Where flies and birds do dwell,

Outdoors! Outdoors!

Another name for hell!

Children's skipping rhyme

Origin unknown

FOREWORD

Excuses. Excuses.

Or, wriggling convincingly off the hook.

It doesn't matter if you haven't read the other books in the

Earthsearch series because this book is a self-contained

novel. Also it's the Earthsearch curtain-raiser although it

was not written first.

Its appearance is a touch embarrassing, so if you find the

spectacle of a writer casting about frantically for excuses

is unedifying, you can skip this intro and plunge straight

into the story.

One of the pleasurable perks of being an author are the

invitations to give lectures (I prefer to call them talks --

it's less pretentious) around the country to arts festivals,

library groups, writers' circles, and science-fiction

conventions etc. During the question and answer session I'm

usually asked by loyal fans of both BBC series if I have

plans to write anymore Earthsearth books, to which I have

usually answered: no. To my shame, the reasons I've trotted

out are usually along lines about how I need to move on to

develop new ideas. There's some truth in this pretentious

twaddle, but the real reason is that I thought I'd played all

the aces in both books. I was convinced that there was little

left to provide fresh twists and turns in the plot and, above

all, surprises. Like everyone else, I was thinking in terms

of a continuation of the story from the end of the last book,

not realising that a story I've had simmering since 1975 is,

in fact, the beginning of the Earthsearch story: a failure of

that most precious tool of the writer -- lateral thinking.

Let me explain about 1975. This was the year when I

forsook an index-linked pension to become a writer, and had

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