"Brin, David - Uplift 05 - Infinity's Shore" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brin David)

achingly familiar from the Caribbean seas of home.

Its bow split the water, spreading a wake that any dol-
phin might love to ride.

The zoom lens clarified, magnified, until he made out
fuzzy bipedal forms, hauling ropes and bustling around on
deck, like any gang of human sailors.

. . . Only these weren't human beings. Kaa glimpsed
scaly backs, culminating in a backbone of sharp spines.
Swathes of white fur covered the legs, and froglike mem-
branes pulsated below broad chins as the ship's company
sang a low, rumbling work chant that Kaa could dimly
make out, even from here.

He felt a chill of unhappy recognition.

Hoons! What in all Five Galaxies are they doing here?

Kaa heard a rustle of fluke strokesЧTsh't and others ris-
ing to join him. Now he must report that enemies of Earth
dwelled here.

Kaa realized grimlyЧthis news wasn't going to help him
win back his nickname anytime soon.

She came to mind again, the capricious goddess of un-
certain destiny. And Kaa's own Trinary phrase came back
to him, as if reflected and reconverged by the surrounding
alien waters.

* Welcome . . .

* Welcome . . .

* Welcome to Ifni's Shore . . . *

Sooners

TkeSt ranger

EXISTENCE SEEMS LIKE WANDERING THROUGH A
vast chaotic house. One that has been torn by quakes
and fire, and is now filled with bitter, inexplicable fog.
Whenever he manages to pry open a door, exposing some
small corner of the past, each revelation comes at the price
of sharp waves of agony.

In time, he learns not to be swayed by the pain. Rather,