"Attanasio, A A - Radix 02 - In Other Worlds 1.0" - читать интересную книгу автора (Attanasio A.A)

experiences you wholly, shining with the full possibilities of
life. There is a great potential difference between that and your
actual physical form. An eld skyle experiences a thrilling, century-
long rush of power as it rectifies the dimensionally charged gap
between the optimal and the actual."
"Yeah, well, I'm glad this was a high for somebody. But
what's it do for me?"
"What I've done for you, Carl"-the eld skyle
spoke with the exuberance of a game-show host "is to give you
a new body. It's fashioned from the lake sludge, but it's more
fully you than the old shape you endured. Your body has been
adamized, if you will accept my neologism. Like Adam, you
have now been made in the exact likeness of your nucleic
potential. You have been both exalted and reduced. Your
individuality is potentially less but your actual expression, your
stock strength, your innate animality, is greater."
"Sounds great as an idea," Carl admitted, "but is it me?"
"Apart from your new appearance," the eld skyle's voice
hushed through him, "you won't feel any differently than you
did one hundred and thirty billion years ago on earth. You are
still essentially yourself. Even your memories are intact. Let me
show you-"
The presence of the eld skyle's voice vanished into a bleat
of silence. Anxiety shivered through Carl as the conviction that
he was not dreaming seized him. And then the glistening
pleasure returned. His fear shriveled. He had no idea what was
happening, but felt no fear at all. Warmingly, the blue void that
surrounded and buoyed him shimmered with movement. The
light jellied to images, glassy shapes from his past: St. Tim's ash-
colored buildings, canyoned Manhattan, the Blue Apple's dirty
bricks glowing in the city's crooked daylight. Faces snapped past
like the rags of fireworks: childhood buddies, teachers, lovers,
bosses, and his closest friend, Zeke, ZeeZee, Zeebo, the Zee,
his first hero, the big kid who had protected him from the
bullies, the grown man Carl had helped grapple with his
feelings after Nam and a divorce
Gone.
Dumbstruck and glowing with new feelings, Carl rolled
gently through the blue emptiness.
'As you see, your history is still with you," the

voice returned, slender. "So is your fear. But I'm holding it in
check because you are from a special era of life. You have the
possibility of apprehending your fate, unlike the thousands of
other humans from earlier times that have given their
strangeness to me and gone on. They had no way of grasping
the concept of a final black hole or this marvelous kingdom
dangling within it. You are the first that I can speak to about
the infinity virus."
'I think you're overrating me."