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by Steven Gould


  Leland looked at Marilyn. “That would be very…good.” He remembered something. “What were you going to tell me, that time I told you about my shidoin certificate? When you said, ‘I’ll tell you later.’”

  Marilyn looked at Zanna, then back again. “In Aikido, there’s only one person who teaches yet is unranked. I was just wondering if Denesse was…”

  Zanna blinked. “Interesting thought, sister. Very interesting. Maybe that’s what he had in mind.”

  Leland looked from one sister to the other, then one of Michaela’s memories came to him. “Oh, no. No way.”

  Marilyn shrugged. “It’s just that the Doshu is considered beyond rank. After all, you contain the woman who brought Aikido to this planet. She lived thirty years on Agatsu in the flesh and, from what I now understand, made frequent reappearances via the Helm, to keep Aikido on track.”

  “Which will never happen again, no thanks to the Founders!” Leland shook his head violently. “It was never O-Sensei’s intention that Aikido be a fixed and static thing. He wanted it to evolve, to grow. And I’m not at the point Michaela was. She was a fifth dan when she arrived on Agatsu but she trained for thirty more years. I don’t have that experience.”

  Zanna looked at him. “No, not yet—it’s like a lot of things in life. We’ll see.”

  He looked at Marilyn for support, but she just shrugged.

  “We will see.”

  Epilogue

  KACHIHA YABI: VICTORY AT THE SPEED OF SUNLIGHT

  VULCAN PROBE MESSAGE #2563: EPSILON ERIDANI II

  CO2: .278% O2: 22% N2: 77.5%

  CHLOROPHYLL REFLECTIVE SPECTRA: 30% SURFACE AREA, 3% IN ORGANIZED FIELDS. ATMOSPHERIC HYDROCARBONS IN TRACE AMOUNTS. SOME PATTERNED ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTIVITY. CONCENTRATED THERMAL ZONES UNRELATED TO GEOLOGIC PHENOMENON.

  EST HUMAN POPULATION: 500K ± 25K

  PROGNOSIS: POPULATION VIABLE

  REPEAT

  PROGNOSIS: POPULATION VIABLE

  MESSAGE ENDS

  About the Author

  Steven Gould lives in New Mexico with his wife, author Laura J. Mixon, and their two daughters. His short fiction has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards and his novels have been chosen by the American Library Association as “Best Books For Young Adults.” Jumper was one of the hundred most banned books in America between 1990 and 1999 which only goes to show that people should read past page nine. Steven says the secret to teleportation is [THIS PASSAGE CLASSIFIED--REF: NSA-3443-ALPHA-HOTEL-ZEBRA].

  Steven says the real secret to teleportation is reading. Be transported, imagine!

  For more information about Steven, see his website (http://eatourbrains.com/steve).

  Table of Contents

  Copyright

  Books by Steven Gould

  Acknowledgements

  Table of Contents

  Quote

  Prologue: KATSU JIN KEN...THE SWORD THAT SAVES LIFE

  Chapter 1: SHOSHIN...BEGINNER'S MIND

  Chapter 2: RENSHU...REN (REPEAT) SHU (LEARN) OR LEARN BY REPEATING

  Chapter 3: KUZUSHIN...DISRUPTION OF BALANCE

  Chapter 4: KIHON...FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

  Chapter 5: UKEMI...LITERALLY RECEIVING [WITH/THROUGH] THE BODY

  Chapter 6: KOSHIN...MOVING BACKWARD

  Chapter 7: KI MUSUBI...KNOTTING UP, CONNECTING, KI

  Chapter 8: TAMESHIGIRI...TEST CUTTING

  Chapter 9: ZENSHIN...MOVING FORWARD

  Chapter 10: HITORI WAZA... INVISIBLE PARTNER PRACTICE

  Chapter 11: SETSUZOKU...CONNECTION

  Chapter 12: TANINSUGAKE...TRAINING AGAINST MULTIPLE ATTACKERS

  Chapter 13: NANKEN...BAD SWORD

  Chapter 14: SEI...MOTIONLESS, INACTIVE

  Chapter 15: IRIMI...TO ENTER

  Chatper 16: SETSU NINTO...THE SWORD THAT KILLS

  Chapter 17: SHIKAKU...POSITION RELATIVE TO ONE'S PARTNER WHERE IT IS DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO CONTINUE AN ATTACK

  Chapter 18: SUTEMI...TO THROW AWAY THE BODY

  Chapter 19: MA AI... PROPER DISTANCE

  Chapter 20: AI UCHI...MUTUAL KILL

  Chapter 21: KAESHI WAZA...REVERSALS

  Chapter 22: KENSHO...ENLIGHTENMENT

  Chapter 23: RANDORI...FREE-STYLE (ALL-OUT) TRAINING

  Chapter 24: NINJYO...COMPASSION

  Epilogue

  About the Author

 

 

 


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