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Название книги: Infinity Beach
Автор(ы): Jack McDevitt
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Infinity-Beach-227602.html
The Map of Equatoria
Prologue
AIM 3.513“Don’t do it.” Kane, covered in blood, stood framed in the doorway.“—no choice—” Tripley called as the flyer lifted off the pad. “Do what you can for her.”As he’d feared, the bastards did not show up on his screen. But he could see their eerie companion, the spectral thing that floated through the moonlight. It was tracking northwest, toward Mount Hope. He had to assume it was escorting them. Riding shotgun.The village fell away, and he was out over the lake. He switched to manual, climbed to fifteen hundred meters, and gave it everything it had, which wasn’t much. The flyer rattled and creaked but got up to two hundred fifty klicks. To his surprise he saw that he was gaining ground.Was that possible? Or had the thing slowed down, to lure him on?Three of Greenway’s moons, in their first quarter, floated in a cloudless sky, illuminating the distant peaks, the cool, dark lake, the dam, the fleeing cloud.What was it anyhow?It had drawn itself almost into a sphere, trailing long, hazy tendrils. Like a comet, he thought; unlike any other that had sailed past the world. Lethal and efficient and starkly graceful, framed against the snowcapped mountains.But the sensor return was getting louder. He was gaining.In these first quiet moments since everything had come undone, he listened to the wind and the burble of his electronics, and he wished desperately he could go back and change everything.Ahead, the comet-shape was moving ever slower. And beginning to dissolve.Tripley braked.He knew that the ship would be c
Название книги: Infinity Beach
Автор(ы): Jack McDevitt
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Infinity-Beach-227602.html
The Map of Equatoria
Prologue
AIM 3.513“Don’t do it.” Kane, covered in blood, stood framed in the doorway.“—no choice—” Tripley called as the flyer lifted off the pad. “Do what you can for her.”As he’d feared, the bastards did not show up on his screen. But he could see their eerie companion, the spectral thing that floated through the moonlight. It was tracking northwest, toward Mount Hope. He had to assume it was escorting them. Riding shotgun.The village fell away, and he was out over the lake. He switched to manual, climbed to fifteen hundred meters, and gave it everything it had, which wasn’t much. The flyer rattled and creaked but got up to two hundred fifty klicks. To his surprise he saw that he was gaining ground.Was that possible? Or had the thing slowed down, to lure him on?Three of Greenway’s moons, in their first quarter, floated in a cloudless sky, illuminating the distant peaks, the cool, dark lake, the dam, the fleeing cloud.What was it anyhow?It had drawn itself almost into a sphere, trailing long, hazy tendrils. Like a comet, he thought; unlike any other that had sailed past the world. Lethal and efficient and starkly graceful, framed against the snowcapped mountains.But the sensor return was getting louder. He was gaining.In these first quiet moments since everything had come undone, he listened to the wind and the burble of his electronics, and he wished desperately he could go back and change everything.Ahead, the comet-shape was moving ever slower. And beginning to dissolve.Tripley braked.He knew that the ship would be c
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