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  • Instead, they ousted him.†   (source)
  • Someone edged up to the stove of the 38th, only to be ousted.†   (source)
  • Tori, former leader of Dauntless, ousted by Evelyn herself, stands a few feet away from me, her arms crossed.†   (source)
  • It is the people of Iran who ousted the Shah and unanimously approved the establishment of an Islamic Republic.†   (source)
  • Soon, his own forces deserted him and he was ousted in a coup in early March.†   (source)
  • If you don't prove your worth and earn the respect of my followers, I'll be ousted and one of these morons will become the new king.†   (source)
  • After the Taliban was ousted in Afghanistan, banditry spread and Amnesty International quoted an aid worker as saying: "During the Taliban era, if a woman went to market and showed an inch of flesh, she would have been flogged; now, she's raped.†   (source)
  • They sought to overthrow the fledgling Afghan government and oust the American-led coalition forces, whom they considered invaders and infidels.†   (source)
  • And in the bloodless military coup that ousted him, General Pervez Musharraf had been installed in his place.†   (source)
  • I knew him as a student firebrand, organizing others for curricular reform, or collecting signatures to oust an unpopular warden.†   (source)
  • Together they had set about the ousting of the Old Guard.†   (source)
  • They march to his house down the middle of the street, impromptu parades of them, husbands and wives and crying toddlers on shoulders, angry white people and brown people and black people, and now even some yellow, a few faces I think I recognize from past rallies and events, yelling together for his ouster in the simple rhyme of the picket: Hey, ho, Kwang must go!†   (source)
  • The sandblasters have been here, the skylight people; inside, the benjamina trees and tropical climbers have taken over, ousting the mangy African violets once nurtured on kitchen windowsills.†   (source)
  • All twelve Democratic votes were obviously lost, and the forty-two Republicans knew that they could afford to lose only six of their own members if Johnson were to be ousted.†   (source)
  • Those ousted peepers you mention… like Jerry Church.†   (source)
  • The Ouster trooper's eyes, unblinking behind his helmet, were real.†   (source)
  • When the board rejected the plan, Carl tried to oust its members.†   (source)
  • The essence of the plan was that the Ousters had to be provoked into attacking the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • I told her many-but not all-of the things the Ousters had revealed.†   (source)
  • He was also quite sure that no local defense forces would challenge an Ouster warship.†   (source)
  • Kassad assumed that the Ousters all knew by now that the squid had been hijacked by the enemy.†   (source)
  • "Squids," the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft.†   (source)
  • Our evacuation task force should arrive only a short while before the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Only a glowing indicator on the Ouster device showed that it was working… had already worked.†   (source)
  • "So the Ousters are not in-system yet?" asked Brawne Lamia.†   (source)
  • The fact that he was wearing an Ouster suit gave him at least a two-second advantage.†   (source)
  • Ousters, it turned out, had changed physically in three centuries.†   (source)
  • And there had been no threat of an Ouster invasion.†   (source)
  • I didn't mention Johnny's comment that the Core had been in touch with the Ousters.†   (source)
  • The Ousters obviously had not read the FORCE doctrine books.†   (source)
  • He was floating in the middle of Operating Room 3 when the Ouster came through the door.†   (source)
  • How many Ousters would one of those things carry?†   (source)
  • "Who knows what the Ousters will do?" he said.†   (source)
  • The Ousters would be eradicated as a potential menace once and for all.†   (source)
  • The Ouster assault boat, rising like a bronze tombstone to his left, was real.†   (source)
  • "Our friend is a spy," said Sol Weintraub, "but not merely an Ouster spy."†   (source)
  • The Ousters also had been very good with technologies and drugs.†   (source)
  • The Ousters don't want to occupy Hyperion," he said.†   (source)
  • Kassad approved of the way the Ousters had prepared their defenses.†   (source)
  • But our intelligence suggested that the Ouster miscalculation had not been a total disaster.†   (source)
  • The Ouster assault boats that were following me?†   (source)
  • The pale, oddly alien head of an Ouster commander suddenly materialized on the holo console.†   (source)
  • Johnny carried an Ouster hellwhip captured on Bressia and had tucked a laser wand in his belt.†   (source)
  • All of the Ouster bodies on Bressia had been male.†   (source)
  • He assumed it was the sweet smell of home to an Ouster.†   (source)
  • The Ousters are testing the FORCE:space defenses.†   (source)
  • Corpses of Ouster men and women, all naked, were impaled on at least a score of these thorns.†   (source)
  • The Ousters fought… and died… like cornered rats.†   (source)
  • Since the war on Bressia a few years earlier, the Ousters had been the Web's prime bogeymen.†   (source)
  • Even in their confusion and panic, the Ousters offered me refuge.†   (source)
  • The third Ouster would have escaped if he had not rediscovered honor and turned to fight.†   (source)
  • The FORCE joint chiefs believe that this is the Ousters' big push," said Meina Gladstone.†   (source)
  • The Ouster was still firing energy bolts as he-or she-became too small to see.†   (source)
  • And the Ousters obviously had many questions for these Hegemony citizens.†   (source)
  • The squid reached atmosphere before the three Ouster assault boats reached the squid.†   (source)
  • Kassad made a note that the Ousters used women in their Marines.†   (source)
  • He was thinking about Meina Gladstone's contention that one of the group was an Ouster agent.†   (source)
  • And you've been in touch with the Ousters via the ship's fatline transmitter?†   (source)
  • For more months I wandered in regions where the Ouster Swarms regularly migrated.†   (source)
  • But who manipulated the Ousters into attacking?†   (source)
  • No one wants to stay behind to face the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Those are Hegemony missiles being exploded by the Ouster ramscouts" countermeasures."†   (source)
  • Our intelligence reports suggest that at least one of the seven pilgrims is an agent of the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Although there had been no more major battles, the Ousters remained the Hegemony's prime bogeymen.†   (source)
  • The Ouster stared, opened his mouth as if to speak, and collapsed.†   (source)
  • To the west an Ouster dropship sat with its portals irised open.†   (source)
  • Kassad turned to his right and found himself face to face with an armored Ouster.†   (source)
  • I contacted the Ouster ship and said that there had been an accident.†   (source)
  • It was a slight miscalculation that I was still on Bressia when the Ouster hordes arrived.†   (source)
  • Moneta gestured toward the motionless Ousters.†   (source)
  • Names like Garden and the Ousters, Renaissance and Lusus meant little to her.†   (source)
  • The Ousters had been observing Hyperion since before the Battle of Bressia.†   (source)
  • "Ousters, almost certainly," said Kassad.†   (source)
  • Sitting in the command chair of an Ouster squid, Kassad did not have a clue.†   (source)
  • She will need to sail home to oust Euron and press her own claim.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes again, trying to see them, trying to remember… the Confederation had met for the first time in France, yes, he had written that already… Goblins had tried to attend and been ousted… he had written that, too… And nobody from Liechtenstein had wanted to come… Think, he told himself, his face in his hands, while all around him quills scratched out never-ending answers and the sand trickled through the hour-glass at the front… He was walking along the cool, dark corridor…†   (source)
  • If there were more than two, if the Ousters worked in squads of four, Kassad almost certainly would be dead.†   (source)
  • But for all of FORCE's calculations and preparations, no one had adequately planned on the inevitable confrontation with the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Ouster forces retreated behind a line of scorched earth, leaving only booby traps and dead civilians.†   (source)
  • Despite feints and occasional fierce battles, the Ousters retained complete control of everything within three AU of Bressia.†   (source)
  • The last fatline message from Bressia to the Hegemony was cut off in mid-transmission an hour after Ouster troops entered the city.†   (source)
  • The second man-or woman-fired a wild sonic burst past Kassad's left shoulder a second before he put three bolts into the Ouster's chestplate.†   (source)
  • He wrested the sonic away just as the second Ouster swung into the room, agile as an Old Earth chimp.†   (source)
  • The Ouster in front of him would close his eyes in a blink if Kassad had the patience to watch long enough.†   (source)
  • If the Ousters or the Shrike gain access to the Web's farcaster system, billions of lives on hundreds of worlds are at risk.†   (source)
  • Behind his gore-smeared faceplate, Kassad's eyes stared sightlessly upward as the Ouster's chestlight swept across him.†   (source)
  • The Ouster's corpse suddenly was sucked up and out of the broken blister like an ant into a vacuum cleaner.†   (source)
  • The Ouster troops, even those set in attitudes of motion, were as stiff as the toy soldiers he had played with as a boy in the Thatsis slums.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Kassad and Moneta and the Shrike could kill all of them without the Ousters realizing that they were under attack.†   (source)
  • The defenses weren't very good the other day when the Ouster scouts got through and destroyed the Yggdrasi! i," said Lamia.†   (source)
  • There are rumors that the Ousters can.†   (source)
  • Impossible. l've dodged a laser/He picked up a stone and flung it at the Ouster manning the tank-mounted he! iwhip.†   (source)
  • The difficulty with that solution" was that Kassad had seen the FORCE:intelligence holos of the Ouster ship they had captured off Bressia.†   (source)
  • The Ousters did not have farcasters.†   (source)
  • They're waiting to fight the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Hc let them hang useless as he bailed out of his own helmet and wrestled the Ouster bubble into place.†   (source)
  • Kassad made a mental note that a squid probably held about twenty Ouster commandos in full vacuum combat gear.†   (source)
  • I was made to understand that the resulting battle had more to do with internal Web politics than with the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say that I believe the Ousters have done what Web humanity has not in the past millennia: evolved.†   (source)
  • Kassad watched as the Ouster torchship stood off a hundred klicks, its defense fields blurring background stars, and launched several objects.†   (source)
  • By that time all of the Ousters were dead in and around the overrun boat, but its containment field held.†   (source)
  • He was just about to the deck opening where he had watched the squid approach when he rounded a corner and almost floated into three Ouster commandos.†   (source)
  • Essentially the Ousters had to be provoked into attacking, and the key to that provocation was the world of Hyperion.†   (source)
  • Now the forces-that-be in the Senate and AI Advisory Council had determined that some test had to be made of Ouster might in the Outback itself.†   (source)
  • The Ouster's head rolled in the dust.†   (source)
  • The Ouster swarm then put more than three thousand ships into Bressia's cislunar space and began the systematic reduction of all planetary defenses.†   (source)
  • During the "Bad Times," we vacationed at Uncle Kowa's place out beyond the moon, on a terra-formed asteroid brought there before the Ouster migration.†   (source)
  • I used myfatline transmitter to contact Gladstone and to tell her that the Ouster agents had been eliminated.†   (source)
  • Kassad had no doubt that the Ouster warship could destroy him at any second, and that it would if he approached or threatened it in any way.†   (source)
  • The Ousters believed that the Time Tombs were artifacts from their future, the Shrike a weapon of redemption awaiting the proper hand to seize it.†   (source)
  • There was nothing in the troop carrier section except the corpse of the Ouster pilot and a few storage compartments not much larger than lunchboxes.†   (source)
  • If the Ousters conquer Hyperion, their agent must be eliminated and the Time Tombs sealed at all cost.†   (source)
  • I told her that the Ousters wanted me to become Consul on Hyperion so that I might be a double agent when war came.†   (source)
  • For decades, Colonel Kassad, forces of the TechnoCore had been harassing the Ouster swarms wherever they fled.†   (source)
  • The Ousters could land a few attack skimmers or automated tanks and watch on remote while they destroy the valley.†   (source)
  • "The Ousters," breathed Brawne Lamia.†   (source)
  • Curiosity, he knew, could easily be overridden in times of stress, but he counted on a paramilitary, semifeudal culture like the Ousters' to be deeply involved with revenge.†   (source)
  • Their society. was archaically and delightfully Prussian, militaristic to a fault, arrogant in their economic pretensions, xenophobic to the point of happily enlisting to wipe out the "Ouster Menace."†   (source)
  • The Shrike Cult saw the monster as an avenging angel; the Ousters saw it as a tool of human devising, sent back through time to deliver humanity from the TechnoCore.†   (source)
  • What you have ignored, my friend, is that if Meina Gladstone and elements of the Core chose you for the Ouster contact, they knew very well what you would do.†   (source)
  • The Ouster commando emitted a second, shorter scream, and then looked down in disbelief as the Shrike's arm withdrew with the man's heart in its bladed fist.†   (source)
  • No. The Core has contact with every colony world, with such interstellar barbarians as the Ousters, and with other sources the Hegemony could not imagine.†   (source)
  • "Colonel," said Het Masteen, "the forcefield… whatever the fighting suit was… did you bring it with you after the encounter with the Ousters and this… female?"†   (source)
  • The Consul tried to imagine the reality of armored Ouster troops stepping through farcaster portals into the undefended home cities on a hundred worlds.†   (source)
  • By the time the Ousters withdrew ninety-seven days after the FORCE "rescue" of Bressia, Kassad had earned the double-edged nickname of the Butcher of South Bressia.†   (source)
  • He was discovered lying unconscious on one of the grassy moors which lead to the abandoned Chronos Keep, some twenty kilometers from the dead city and the wreckage of the Ouster ejection pod.†   (source)
  • The Ouster had moved to the right.†   (source)
  • An Ouster commando rose from one knee, saw the Shrike and the two human shapes, screamed something over his tactical comm channel, and raised his energy weapon.†   (source)
  • Unless a military fareaster were hurriedly constructed in the Hyperion system-at staggering expense-there would be no way to resist the Ouster invasion.†   (source)
  • Two nuclear" devices were actually detonated against Ouster staging areas: the first was deflected by energy fields and the second destroyed a single scoutship which may have been a decoy.†   (source)
  • And the Ousters, the only other tribe of humanity free to wander between the stars and the only group not dominated by the TechnoCore, was next on our list of extinction.†   (source)
  • Kassad's tactical display was a hopeless mess; his visor showed a garble of impossible fire vectors, blinking red phosphors where FORCE troops lay dying, and overlays of Ouster jamming ghosts.†   (source)
  • Five of those SDF Death Commandos have been parked there for a week, telling everyone and each other how they are going to wipe out the Ouster Legions with their bare hands.†   (source)
  • An Ouster migration cluster might consist of ships ranging in size from single-person ramscouts to can cities and comet forts holding tens of thousands of the interstellar barbarians.†   (source)
  • Among all the other risks Gladstone was taking, the old woman had to consider the possibility that he was the spy and that she was fatlining crucial information to an Ouster agent.†   (source)
  • Worse, from the Ousters" point of view, was the fact that by setting their dropships down near the Tombs themselves, the same commander had revealed their ability to defy the time tides.†   (source)
  • Later, when the fatline call to pilgrimage came from Gladstone herself, I knew the role the Ousters had planned for me in these final days: the Ousters, or the Core, or Gladstone and her machinations.†   (source)
  • The scouts found only the wreckage of Kassad's escape mechanism and the burned out hulks of the two assault boats which the Ousters had lanced from orbit.†   (source)
  • If the task force was using a full attack carrier to escort the Yggdrasili, what kind of firepower were they setting in place to meet the Ouster invasion?†   (source)
  • There were no clues as to why they had slagged their own ships and the Ouster bodies-both in and around the boats-had been burned beyond any hope of autopsy or analysis.†   (source)
  • The locals would not like that, Kassad knew, but from their point of view it might be preferable to let a bit of sky fall than to antagonize the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Reconnaissance squads from the SDF battalion moved northward carefully, cautious of the anti-entropic tides around the Time Tombs and wary of any booby traps left behind by the Ousters.†   (source)
  • If the planet had primitive orbital defenses or ground-based CPBs, he realized with a grim smile, it would make more sense for them to blast the wreckage than to fire on the Ouster ship.†   (source)
  • Instead, with a single course correction which was not detected until the swarm was within the O6rt cloud radius, the Ousters fell on Bressia like some Old Testament plague.†   (source)
  • Kassad found himself glancing skyward, knowing that the Ouster torchship could lance them from orbit… then knowing with a sudden certainty that it would not.†   (source)
  • I was given the most challenging and sensitive assignment ever relegated to someone of mere consular rank: diplomat in charge of direct negotiations with the Ousters themselves.†   (source)
  • If the Ousters are attacking Hyperion to prevent the opening of the Time Tombs, as M. Lamia's tale suggests, then the Tombs and this entire area would be a primary target.†   (source)
  • The Ouster's suit exploded.†   (source)
  • The hull was relatively smooth for a spacefaring vessel but was decorated with a riot of designs, decals, and panels announcing what he assumed were the Ouster equivalents of NO STEP and DANGER: THRUSTER PORT.†   (source)
  • As tends to be the case in a universe apparently ruled by irony, Fedmahn Kassad passed unscathed through ninety-seven days of the worst fighting the Hegemony had ever seen, only to be wounded two days after the last of the Ousters had retreated to their fleeing swarmships.†   (source)
  • The Ousters did not pursue.†   (source)
  • As if to demonstrate what war had once been about, the Ousters scoured North Bressia-first with several hundred fallout-free nuclear weapons and tactical plasma bombs, then with deathbeams, and finally with tailored viruses.†   (source)
  • The Ousters kept a tidy ship.†   (source)
  • He lowered her to the ground between piles of Ouster bodies, roughly opened her legs, took both her hands in the grasp of one of his, lifted her arms above her head, pinned them to the ground, and lowered his long body between her legs.†   (source)
  • He would not be surprised-disappointed, but not surprised-if the torchship vaporized him at any second, but in the meantime he was counting on two emotions that were quint-essentially human if not necessarily Ouster human: curiosity and the desire for revenge.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Father Hoyt hesitantly, as if trying to retrieve an earlier strand of thought, "if the Hegemony convoy leaves and the Ousters take Hyperion, perhaps the occupation will be bloodless and they'll let us go about our business."†   (source)
  • The Ousters responded with a barrage of nuclear and plasma weapons, pinning the ground troops under forcefields while the Ouster infantry retreated to prepared "defenses around cities and dropship staging areas.†   (source)
  • Ouster ground troops had been busy diing revetments a hundred meters out from the boats and Kassad could see at least two EM tanks hull down, their projection arrays and launch tubes commanding the wide, empty moor between the Poets" City and the boats.†   (source)
  • While we llve in our derivative cultures, pale reflections of Old Earth life, the Ousters have explored new dimensions of aesthetics and ethics and biosciences and art and all the things that must change and grow to reflect the human soul.†   (source)
  • Kassad watched the creature wink in and out of existence and real'-d that to the Pain Lord he and Moneta would appear to be moving as slowly as the Ousters did to Kassado Time jumped, moved to four-fifths speed.†   (source)
  • Kassad was gambling again, this time on the fact that Ouster ground units on Bressia had functioned as semi-independent teams united by voice radio and basic telemetry rather than a FORCE:ground type of tactical implant web.†   (source)
  • In the decades which followed Lee Three, FORCE and Ouster space'forces skirmished in a hundred border areas, but except for the odd Marine encounters in airless, weightless places, there were no infantry confrontations.†   (source)
  • On the night before the Ouster retreat, Kassad left the command conference on the HS Brazil, farcast to his HQ in the Indelibles north of the Hyne Valley, and took his command car to the summit to watch the final bombardment.†   (source)
  • Kassad could hear the squid shaking and beginning to break up as he hung on a pivot ring and all but accepted the fact that the Ousters had not wasted money or space on such low-probability rescue devices for their squids.†   (source)
  • A war with… the Ousters?†   (source)
  • Even after the Ousters acquired the Hawking drive, it remained official Hegemony policy to ignore them as long as their swarms stayed in the darkness between the stars and limited their in-system plunderings to scooping small amounts of hydrogen from gas giants and water ice from uninhabited moons.†   (source)
  • But their mobile infantry's powered exoskeletons served very well and it was only, a matter of days before the black-clad, 1ong-limbed Ouster troops were swarming over South Bressia's cities like an infestation of giant spiders.†   (source)
  • He guessed that there were Ousters on board, a pilot at least, and that they were probably wondering why their returning commando was crawling around the hull like a spavined crab rather than cycling the airlock.†   (source)
  • "The Ousters?" said Kassad.†   (source)
  • The Ouster Hawking wake had been noticed by Hegemony monitoring stations but was misinterpreted as merely another swarm migration which would pass no closer than half a light-year to the Bressian system.†   (source)
  • Kassad's febfeather had all but failed, he was floating immobile, gasping foul air, as the Ouster commando swung in, swung aside, and brought his two weapons to bear on the unarmed figure in a battered Marine spacesuit.†   (source)
  • The Ousters responded with a barrage of nuclear and plasma weapons, pinning the ground troops under forcefields while the Ouster infantry retreated to prepared "defenses around cities and dropship staging areas.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they could not have guessed that the Ousters had the means by which o open the Tombs-although with the Als of the Core one can never know-but they certainly knew that you would turn on both societies, both camps which have injured your family.†   (source)
  • The idea of the Core… the same congregation of Als which advises the Senate and the All Thing and which allows our entire economy, farcaster system, and technological civilization to run … the idea of the Core being in touch with the Ousters was frightening.†   (source)
  • The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†   (source)
  • Even the pitched battle for Lee Three had been treated as a Colonial Service problem and when the FORCE task force arrived six local years after the attack, five years after the Ousters departed, any atrocities were conveniently forgotten in favor of the view that no barbarian raid would repeat itself when the Hegemony chose to flex its muscle.†   (source)
  • On the last night of the Battle for Stoneheap, in the maze of dark tunnels where Kassad and his hunter-killer groups used sonics and T-5 gas to flush out the last warrens of Ouster commandos, the Colonel fell asleep amid the flame and screams and felt the touch of her long fingers on his cheek and the soft compression of her breasts against him.†   (source)
  • Stories in the Worldweb proliferated: the Ousters would never be a threat to Earthlike worlds because of their three centuries of adaptation to weight-lessness; the Ousters had evolved into something more-or less-than human; the Ousters did not have farcaster technology, would never have it, and thus never would. be a threat to FORCE.†   (source)
  • "Ousters?" asked Lamia.†   (source)
  • Of the Ousters?†   (source)
  • The Ouster spy?†   (source)
  • The Ousters tried.†   (source)
  • He knew that the Ousters would be methodical and efficient but had underestimated how efficient they could be in zero-g. He gambled his life that there would be at least two of them on each sweep-basic Space Marine procedure, much as FORCE:ground jump rats had learned to go door to door il city fighting, one to burst into each room, the other to provide cover fire.†   (source)
  • With the Ousters?†   (source)
  • The Ousters contacted me through private fatline and I took a three weeks" leave from the Consulate, brought my ship down to an isolated place near the Sea of Grass, rendezvoused with their scoutship near the OOrt Cloud, picked up their agent-a woman named Andil-and a trio of technicians, and dropped down north of the Bridle Range, a few kilometers from the Tombs themselves.†   (source)
  • …was spun to something close to its final shape, the All Thing took its democratic place among the list of humanity's benevolent despots, the TechnoCore seceded from human service and then offered its help as an ally rather than a slave, and the Ousters retreated to darkness and the role of Nemesis… but all these things had been creeping toward critical mass even before I was frozen into my ice coffin between the pork bellies and sherbet, and such obvious extensions of old trends took…†   (source)
  • The elite Ouster equivalent of Hegemony Space Marines, the commandos would not only have been trained for free-fall combat but had been born and bred to zero-g. Their long limbs, prehensile toes, and prosthetic tails would be added advantages for this environment, although Kassad doubted that they needed any more advantages than they already had.†   (source)
  • If the fleet did construct a farcaster in time and the Hegemony committed the total resources of FORCE to defending the single, distant, colonial world of Hyperion, the Worldweb ran the terrible risk of suffering an Ouster attack elsewhere on the perimeter, or-in a worst-case scenario-having the barbarians actually seizing the farcaster and penetrating the Web itself.†   (source)
  • The Ousters.†   (source)
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