Anderson Action

The Stars Are Also Fire, 17.

On the run from the authorities, the viewpoint character and his companion move between underground contacts and "screen" themselves from high tech surveillance. This is an Andersonian action-adventure sequence where I find little to post about. 

The contacts include a "Chemo" metamorph:

completely hairless;

obsidian-black skin;

long head and face;

pale, nordic-looking eyes;

high-pitched voice.

 

And why were Chemos created?

 

In the "Mother of the Moon" period, Edmond Beynac continues to argue that there was a large ancient asteroid (12, p. 154) and, in the World Federation period, the authorities continue to conceal a secret called "Proserpina." (15, p. 197) Some first time readers might deduce what all this means.