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Jumper:
Griffin's Story
Steven Gould
 TOR®
ATOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES
Copyright © 2007 by Steven C. Gould
Edited by Beth Meacham
ISBN–13: 978–0–7653–1827–5
ISBN–10: 0–7653–1827–X


Content
Tor Books by Steven Gould
Chapter One The Empty Quarter
Chapter Two Lost (and Found)
Chapter Three Burning Bridges
Chapter Four Grasshoppers and Charcoal
Chapter Five Going to Ground
Chapter Six Old Paths
Chapter Seven Punches and Pimples
Chapter Eight Incursions
Chapter Nine Shattered Tiles
Chapter Ten Turning the Corner
Chapter Eleven Going for the Kidney
Chapter Twelve Rites of Passage
Chapter Thirteen Ends and Beginnings




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Chapter One
The Empty Quarter
Every couple of months Dad and I would climb in the car and he'd drive out through the
suburbs, out past the small towns, past the farms and ranches, until we came to what I called
the Empty Quarter. I saw a BBC special on it once–I thought they said Ruby Kallie, but now I
know they were saying the Rub al–Khali–the "quarter of emptiness."
It's the sea of sand that makes up a fifth of the Arabian Peninsula, but for us it could mean
Death Valley, or the Gila wilderness, or the Spanish Pyrenees, and once, it was an island in the
Bay of Siam that we had to sail a small boat to.
But it had to be empty–it had to be without people. That was the only safe place where I