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Название книги: Man Plus
Автор(ы): Frederik Pohl
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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OneAn Astronaut and His World
It is necessary to tell you about Roger Torraway. One human being does not seem particularly important, when there are eight billion alive. Not more important than, for example, a single microchip in a memory store. But a single chip can be decisive when it carries an essential bit, and Torraway was important in just that way.He was a good-looking man, as people go. Famous, too. Or had been.There had been a time when Roger Torraway hung in the sky for two months and three weeks, along with five other astronauts. They were all dirty, horny and mostly bored. That wasn’t what made him famous. That was just “people in the news” stuff, fit for two sentences on the seven o’clock wrap-up on a dull night.But he did get famous. In Bechuanaland and Baluchistan and Buffalo, people knew his name. Time gave him its cover. He didn’t have it all to himself. He had to share it with the rest of his team in the orbiting lab, because they were the ones who got lucky and rescued the Soviet bunch that cam
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