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Larry Niven, Steven Barnes. Dream Park. 1981

 

pp303-4.
I once had a sword, or should I say, it once had me.
I just picked it up, oh what a sword, it was plus three.
It’s Ego was twelve, a fact of which I wasn’t aware;
Then I tried to leave and I found that the sword didn’t care; oh ...

I walked through the halls, wasting my time, nothing to find.
Then I turned a corner, and then I said, ‘Oh, no! Undead!’
The thirty-two Wights saw me coming and started to laugh;
And I closed my eyes as my sword started hewing a path; oh---

And when I awoke, I was alone, that sword had flown.
Now, I use a club; isn’t it good… no-ego wood.

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Steven Barnes. The Kundalini Equation. TOR. 1986

 

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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes. The Legacy of Heorot. Sphere. 1987

 

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Larry Niven, Steven Barnes. Saturn's Race. Tor. 2000