"Bester, Alfred - Biped Reegan" - читать интересную книгу автора (Bester Alfred)

And when at last the dust and blackness were gone, the citadel was in ruins. The
courtyard was merely overturned earth with fragments of broken stone protruding.
Of the mechanism, of the biped Ivar, or the others there was no sign.
Intelligence-mu of the Research Legions persists that the mechanism was a
machine for piercing the skies to reach to the very light on high, and claims
that it carried off the two bipeds and unfortunate Spy-zeta with it; but I
cannot help believing that they have destroyed themselves.
So, if it please your Imperial Maternity, the day is won. On all earth there is
no living biped. The earth, the air and the waters . . . all there is in the
world is yours. Everything is yours, Imperial Maternity, as am I also.... Your
most humble and very obedient servant....