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|range = In Time (anthology) | |range = In Time (anthology) | ||
|number in range = 2 | |number in range = 2 | ||
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|setting | |setting = [[Goethe]] | ||
|writer | |writer = [[Doris V Sutherland]] | ||
|read by | |read by = [[Lisa Bowerman]] | ||
|anthology | |anthology = ''[[In Time (anthology)|In Time]]'' | ||
|release date | |release date = [[19 December (releases)|19 December]] [[2018 (releases)|2018]] | ||
|series | |series = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' short stories | ||
|prev | |prev = Oh No, Not Again (short story) | ||
|next | |next = The Seventh Fanfic (short story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the anthology ''[[In Time (anthology)|In Time]]''. | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the second story in the anthology ''[[In Time (anthology)|In Time]]''. | ||
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''to be | After offending [[Zhang|Officer Zhang]] in a [[lecture]] at [[Spacefleet Academy|the Academy]], [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] is made to wear an [[exo-suit]] modified to look like a [[rabbit]] for a training exercise on [[Goethe]]. A recording tells her how Goethe was an [[Earth]] colony inhabited by psychic individuals until the sole continent was destroyed by a [[hypervolcano]] and Zhang informs Benny and her fellow students that their mission is to locate and retrieve their respective [[drone]]s. | ||
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== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[Kenan]] | * [[Kenan]] | ||
* [[Maaza]] | * [[Maaza]] | ||
* | * [[Zhang|Officer Zhang]] | ||
* [[Mummy (The Bunny's Curse)|Mummy]] | * [[Mummy (The Bunny's Curse)|Mummy]] | ||
* [[Second mummy (The Bunny's Curse)|Second mummy]] | * [[Second mummy (The Bunny's Curse)|Second mummy]] | ||
Revision as of 19:13, 23 December 2022
The Bunny's Curse was the second story in the anthology In Time.
Plot
After offending Officer Zhang in a lecture at the Academy, Benny is made to wear an exo-suit modified to look like a rabbit for a training exercise on Goethe. A recording tells her how Goethe was an Earth colony inhabited by psychic individuals until the sole continent was destroyed by a hypervolcano and Zhang informs Benny and her fellow students that their mission is to locate and retrieve their respective drones.
to be completed
Characters
References
- Goethe was once home to psychics before a volcanic eruption covered the planet's only continent in molten rubble.
- Zhang collects 22nd century model submarines.
- During some academy training exercises, Benny has visited carved cliff-faces of Merritt and the glowing tube cities on Xolotl. The exercise on Xolotl was distubed by bioluminescent scavenger worms.
- A psychic person's power can double or even quadruple when they are under extreme stress.
- A cadet once found out he was psychic after deactivating a platoon of combat synths at the last minute of an exercise. His girlfriend Roxanne cried for weeks after he was transferred for the psychic division, on a different base.
- While running from the mummy, Benny enters a museum. It's exhibitions were:
- Posters advertising VR simulations
- Clothes influenced by popular entertainers
- Parts of vehicles
- A glass sheet that projected though-forms for amusement of children
- A puzzle to be solved with telekinesis
- A cutlery set
- The mummified remains of a hypervolcano victim
- Toys, including those resembling pink bunnies
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- Bernice briefly thinks of her mother, before deciding she shouldn't dwell on the past. (PROSE: Love and War)
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