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WARP SPEED
By Travis S. Taylor
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are
fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2004 by Travis S. Taylor

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any
form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com

ISBN: 0-7434-8862-8

Cover art by David Mattingly

First printing, December 2004

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH (www.windhaven.com)
Printed in the United States of America
 To my wife Karen who told me,
"You've read so many of these science fictions books,
you ought to try writing one."

Good idea, here it is.
BAEN BOOKS by TRAVIS S. TAYLOR
Warp Speed
The Quantum Connection (forthcoming)




CHAPTER 1
 I was trying hard to breathe, but it wasn't coming easy. I tugged at my red team uniform top
anxiously. Smacking my fists against my headgear was the only thing that seemed to focus me.
"All right! Bow to me!" the referee began. "Bow to each other. Touch gloves. Fight!"
Seeing that my opponent was dropping his back hand, I slipped to the right. I lunged like a sprinter
out of a starting block and jumped. As I prepared to backfist the guy on the side of his headgear, I