A Trace of Dreams

This was where the game was played: the planet Meridian, a galactic plague spot that could have been a Paradise. These were the players: a tiny band of outlaws that hid on a seven-mile-high mountain, coming down only to raid the food factories or to establish communication with the queer, half-human Greens. These were the stakes: freedom, survival and life itself! The name of the game was revolution, a strange sort of struggle that was covered by TV like a sporting event – and masked a deeper, more complex game than any that had played before.