"You planning on telling us what happened?"  Daniel was still being suspicious and unpleasant, but Charlie ignored him.  He wanted to know what Jim had done Outside, too.

"Brackett fitted me up with a video camera, one of those little ones that fits behind your ear, and a mike, so he could hear all I said and see what I saw.  I decided not to take ( Read more... )

Charlie said nothing, bewildered by all the talk of aliens, wormholes, governments.  An algorithm to break into a computer, that he could do.  A secure terminal, that he could understand; he'd worked a case like that with Don, ages ago.  Could he do it without access to software, with just a picture of the screen, a pencil and some paper?  Now that ( Read more... )

There were eighty-seven links in the chain, not counting the anchor-point that was riveted to the wall at one end or the four smaller chains (with twenty seven, twenty six, thirty five and thirty seven links respectively) leading from the ring at the other end to the shackles on his wrists and ankles.

There were four thousand eight hundred and ( Read more... )