"Bell, Douglas K - Infinity City 02 - Jason the Rescuer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Bell Douglas K)

(Note: Pretend words in all CAPITALS are really in *italics*! )








1. HOME.

Jason left the happy occasion of his parents 100th
anniversary party slightly early, feeling a little miffed at
still not being able to talk them into having more children. He
quietly left their little apartment above their family store, a
curio shop of exotic items from around the Galaxy, and headed to
his electric rent-a-car parked along the street here in the
quaint little section of Infinity City known as Oldtown, where he
had grown up. Jason had actually only recently returned to
Infinity City. *1. (See footnotes at end of this chronicle.)
With the extraordinary amount of money resulting from his last
rescue mission of a stranded space vessel, he had purchased for
his parents an anniversary gift of 100 years supply of the PILL
OF LIFE. *2. They were extremely grateful, as the PILL was
expensive, and their only source of income was from their little
curio shop. Their old supply of the PILL was almost out. 'What
would they look like if they started to age?' he wondered.
Strange to think... Yes, it had been a happy reunion with them,
in spite of the mysterious little audio tape they had acted so
strangely about, now tucked safely into the pocket of his flight
jacket.

Now, it was down to the shining Infinity City gold souqs to
make his final purchases prior to sailing away tomorrow morning
on his next rescue mission of a huge derelict colonial space
craft, lost somewhere up in the Galaxy outside the black hole of
Infinity City. *3. Miraculously, he had just finished all his
provisioning that very day ahead of schedule and all that was
left was to purchase a good supply of pure, soft buttery-yellow
gold ingots for trading with colonists aboard the stranded ship
he was looking for. Often in the past, the broken down ships
that he had rescued had contained surprising and amazing cargoes
that he would sell for high profits back on Infinity City.

He folded his tall, well-toned physique into his little,
automatic rent-a-car and instructed it to take him to the Oldtown
gold souqs. Jason had gone on the PILL before his aging began
and perpetually looked like he was still a radiant young man in
his early twenties. Exercising frequently, vigorously, almost