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Rafi attends a school for super-human psychic abilities and then travels the universe with an intergalactic sports team. Along the way he encounters strange new worlds and alien cultures, all set within a contemporary vision of scienceโfiction adventure.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Karen Lord
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