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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
0. Midnight
0.00 All Journeys Begin Here
0.01 Animal Parts
0.02 Night, Under Fire
0.03 Inangela
0.04 Couture
0.05 Squaring the Circle
0.06 Valentine
0.07 UST
0.08 Horror
0.09 The Other Side of Town
0.10 Tiffany
0.11 Those Closest
0.12 Lightning Response
0.13 Service
0.14 Pictures of Birds and Bees
0.15 Closer
0.16 Higher Forms of Life
0.17 Complete Synch
0.18 Decorum
0.19 Even So...
0.20 Traces of Nuts
0.21 On Chocolate
0.22 Wonderful People Out There in the Dark
0.23 Note:
0.24 Distracted
0.25 Both Aries
0.26 Enough Tape
0.27 The House of Marrero
0.28 Inventory of Items Purchased from the Stopover:
0.29 Last Spin of the Wheel
0.30 The Lay of the Land
0.31 The Runaway
0.32 Ground Level (1)
0.33 Ground Level (2)
0.34 Flexing
0.35 Ground Level (3)
0.36 Posture
0.37 Continuity
0.38 Blooding
0.39 Safety
0.40 Non-Sequitur, #1
0.41 Footnotes to the Above
0.42 Invisibility Spell
0.43 Faction Paradox
0.44 Sicknote
0.45 Primal Buttons
0.46 The Pills
0.47 The Coming of Bastard Racoon
0.48 Here We Are Back in the Real World
0.49 The Coronation
0.50 Sleeping
0.51 On Red Mercury
0.52 Suite
0.53 Valentine’s Rubicon
0.54 The Secret Route
0.55 A to B
0.56 Manifest Destiny
0.57 Cut to the Chase:
0.58 The Executive
0.59 Committed
1. Witching Hour
1.00 Wake the Dead
1.01 Council
1.02 Minutes (1)
1.03 “Doppelganger”
1.04 Minutes (2)
1.05 Near Miss (1)
1.06 45,001
1.07 Hell
1.08 Edge of Town
1.09 Ms. Korta and the Devils
1.10 Possible Conversation (Once Tiffany Has Left)
1.11 The Wasteland
1.12 Heightened POV
1.13 The Future
1.14 Elsewhere
1.15 The Symbol on the Wasteland
1.16 The Meaning of Life
1.17 Meaning, the Movie
1.18 War-Time
1.19 Why?
1.20 Because
1.21 Room for One More
1.22 What?
1.23 The Lesson
1.24 Swallowed
1.26 Coincidence
1.27 The Faction Are
1.28 (A) The Place
1.29 (B) The Man
1.30 Non-Sequitur, #2
1.31 When?
1.32 The Others
1.33 Industrial Landscape in Orange and Black
1.34 Leaving the Pit
1.35 Man-Eaters
1.36 The Negotiations
1.37 This is What’s Going Through Valentine’s Mind:
1.38 Going Up
1.39 Videotape...
1.40 Big Girl
1.41 How?
1.42 Masks
1.43 The Waiting Room
1.44 Jacqueline
1.45 The Nature of the Pit
1.46 They Who Have Power to Hurt
1.47 Vows
1.48 The Guarantee
1.49 Question...
1.50 Valentine and the Faction (1)
1.51 Who?
1.52 Seventh Sense, Theoretical
1.53 Seventh Sense, Applied
1.54 Long Shot—
1.55 —Close Up—
1.56 —Long Shot
1.57 Weaponry
1.58 On Red Uranium
1.59 The Big Adventure
2. Travel Time
2.00 Making the Bomb
2.01 The Hall
2.02 The Trick
2.03 All Ye Who Enter
2.04 Valentine was Born in the City of the Future
2.05 N.B.
2.06 Familiarity
2.07 The Non-Space
2.08 Shhhh
2.09 Down to Earth
2.10 Ride
2.11 A Certain Professional Rivalry
2.12 To Explain:
2.13 The Plural of “Medium” is “Media”
2.14 The Headless Zoo
2.15 Ms. Kortez and the Mosquito
2.16 No Coverage
2.17 Boommm-CHAT, qua-boommm-CHAT...
2.18 Politics
2.19 The Moral Dimension
2.20 What’s In the Box
2.21 Breathe
2.22 The Waiting Room, Again
2.23 I Am John’s One True Self
2.24 Oh, and...
2.25 Tribute
2.26 Hm
2.27 The Process
2.28 —
2.29 The Land of the Dead
2.30 Next
2.31 The Truth About Foxy
2.32 Valentine’s Question was Never Really Answered
2.33 How the World Sees It
2.34 How Valentine Sees It
2.35 The Hall, Again
2.36 Tiffany’s Question
2.37 Chlick
2.38 The Terror
2.39 Initiation Begins Here
2.40 Makeshift Heart
2.41 Ur-Clich’s
2.42 Valentine, Reprise
2.43 Hive-Mind
2.44 Yes, That’s All
2.45 Wakka
2.46 Ready for the Second Half
2.47 Chrysalis
2.48 The Axe
2.49 There Must Be a Pentagram
2.50 Understanding
2.51 Orphée
2.52 The Mouthpiece
2.53 It
2.54 Rush
2.55 The Suspects
2.56 Five and See Six
2.57 Physics
2.58 The Nature of the Beast
2.59 It (Reprise)
3. Pre-Pre-Dawn
3.00 Vigil
3.01 The Great Urban Horror (Press Shots)
3.02 Coming Down
3.03 Greek Chorus
3.04 Who is the Ritualist?
3.05 Valentine and the Faction (2)
3.06 Inevitability
3.07 Back from the Dead
3.08 The Girl in the Mask?
3.09 Near Miss (2)
3.10 In Memorium
3.11 Wait...
3.12 Tiffany’s Ride
3.13 Inangela’s Embarrassment
3.14 Tiffany’s Answer
3.15 Sequitur, #1
3.16 The Creature That Lives Under the Bed
3.17 Media Sense
3.18 Inangela’s Interrogation
3.19 The Truth About the Dead
3.20 Tiffany’s Guru
3.21 Making Fun of Distance
3.22 Authority
3.23 The Pace
3.24 Inangela’s “Ahhhh”
3.25 The Beast
3.26 The Hunt
3.27 Why Impossible…?
3.28 One...
3.29 ...Two...
3.30 ...Three
3.31 The Centre of Time
3.32 Chance
3.33 Putting Things Together
3.34 ‘I Don’t Believe in Nuclear Weapons...’
3.35 Being There
3.36 And:
3.37 Cinematic Footnote (1)
3.38 Cinematic Footnote (2)
3.39 The Arena...
3.40 The Videoscreen
3.41 Déjà Vu
3.42 More Chance
3.43 The Judge of All the Earth
3.44 Flirting
3.45 Afterlife
3.46 Fed to Animals
3.47 ...The Charges Are as Follows
3.48 Another Cut to the Chase:
3.49 Swerve
3.50 Tragedies
3.51 Static
3.52 Apocalypse Boy
3.53 Go Home Again
3.54 Small Girl
3.55 Becoming More Like Coz
3.56 Knowing Who You Are
3.57 Knowing Who You Aren’t
3.58 The Symbol in the Land of the Dead
3.59 The Sentence
4. First Light
4.00 Let’s Get to the Point:
4.01 Or:
4.02 Or Even:
4.03 This One Last Chance
4.04 Near Miss (3)
4.05 Hit
4.06 Something Else
4.07 The Fall Of
4.08 And Now?
4.09 Getting Involved
4.11 Such Knowledge
4.12 Murder
4.13 Echo
4.14 The Outside World
4.15 For Some Reason, Nobody Took Us Seriously
4.16 Sancho Panza
4.17 Wings Spreading
4.18 And So Do Worlds
4.19 Valentine and the Faction (3)
4.20 Faster than a Magic Bullet
4.21 It Begins (1)
4.22 It Begins (2)
4.23 Inangela’s Question
4.24 Valentine’s Conscience
4.25 North
4.26 The Birth Pains of the New Tiffany Korta
4.27 Inangela’s Logic
4.28 Valentine’s Target
4.29 Counter-Culture
4.30 Valentine’s Struggle with the Powers of Darkness
4.31 Inangela’s Conclusion
4.32 The Devil
4.33 Sequitur, #2
4.34 The Lost
4.35 Valentine’s Version (Same Plot):
4.36 Potlatch
4.37 The Distance
4.38 Ouroborous
4.39 The Last League
4.40 Androgyny
4.41 The Risks
4.42 Up and Down
4.43 Slaughter
4.44 Transmission
4.45 Give Me One Good Reason
4.46 Eighth Sense
4.47 Before Transmission
4.48 The Wrath of Ages
4.49 Boom
4.50 Cover Me
4.51 Number One with a Bullet
4.52 Yes: The Crucible
4.53 Pact (1)
4.54 Nervousness
4.55 Valentine in the Spotlight
4.56 Inangela in the Spotlight
4.57 The War
4.58 Pact (2)
4.59 The South-West Edge of Town
5. Morning
5.00 History Revealed
5.01 Faction Paradox Revealed
5.02 Control
5.03 The Collective Noun for One Man’s Murder
5.04 Wider View
5.05 Inangela in the Underworld
5.06 Valentine in the Ship
5.07 Land
5.08 So?
5.09 A Light at the End of the Tunnel—
5.10 Fear and Power
5.11 Naked in the Presence of the Queen
5.12 SCART Tissue
5.13 This Instinct is What Will Damn You
5.14 Proper Measures
5.15 Yessssss
5.16 Wider View, Reversed
5.17 Incidentals
5.18 The Coming Horror
5.19 Z
5.21 Bastard Racoon Has Arrived
5.22 The Pilot
5.23 Everything That Means Something is True
5.24 Oxygen
5.25 Looking In
5.26 The Past and the Future
5.27 Principles (1)
5.28 Principles (2)
5.30 Perspective
5.31 Purple Worlds
5.32 In Brief
5.33 What You Are
5.34 Ahhhh
5.35 Life Staples
5.36 Sideways
5.37 Narelgin
5.38 Further Probabilities
5.39 Overground
5.40 Can They Do That?
5.41 Before the End
5.42 The Bomb
5.43 ...
5.44 As It Happens
5.45 Fall-Out
5.46 Final Minutes
5.47 Marriage of Convenience
5.48 The Guilty Party
5.49 The Rest of the Answers Given by the Police
5.50 Collateral
5.51 The Loose End
5.52 Remembrance
5.53 War Statistics
5.54 Cut
5.55 The White Machine
5.56 The Black Machine
5.57 The Symbol at the Stopover
5.58 Imaginary Conversation
5.59 Escape
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