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Название книги: Carnival
Автор(ы): Elizabeth Bear
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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Carnival



Elizabeth Bear




For Stephen and Asha



BOOK ONE







The Festival of Meat




1

MICHELANGELO OSIRIS LEARY KUSANAGI‑JONES HAD BEEN drinking since fourteen hundred. He didn’t plan on stopping soon.
He occupied a bubbleport on the current observation deck of
Kaiwo Maru,where he had been since he started drinking, watching a yellow main‑sequence star grow. The sun had the look of a dancer swirling in veils, a Van Gogh starscape. Eons before, it had blundered into a cloud of interstellar gas and was still devouring the remains. Persistent tatters glowed orange and blue against a backdrop of stars, a vast, doomed display of color and light. Kusanagi‑Jones could glimpse part of the clean‑swept elliptical path that marked the orbit of New Amazonia: a darker streak like a worm tunnel in a leaf.