“Tekkai Exhales His Avatar”
Intergalactic Medicine Show #11, March 2009. (science fiction)
illustration by I-Wei Huang
“Well into the ninth year of Tekkai’s incarceration, Kagami Maeda came again to tempt him.”
Reviews
Also interesting in March is Tony Pi’s “Tekkai Exhales His Avatar”, where virtual entities maneuver and fight and double-cross each other through a game world influenced by Far Eastern metaphysics. —Gardner Dozois, LOCUS Magazine (June 2009)