"Brin, David - Uplift 06 - Heaven's Reach" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brin David)

Harry

ALARMS SING A VARIETY OF MELODIES.

Some shriek for attention, yanking you awake

from deathlike repose. Others send your veins

throbbing with adrenaline. Aboard any space vessel

there are sirens and wails that portend collision,

vacuum leaks, or myriad other kinds of impending

death.

But the alarm tugging at Harry Harms wasn't like that.
Its creepy ratchet scraped lightly along the nerves.

"No rush," the soft buzzer seemed to murmur. "I can
wait.

"But don't even think about going back to sleep."

Harry rolled over to squint blearily at the console next
to his pillow. Glowing symbols beckoned meaningfully.
But the parts of his brain that handled reading weren't
perfectly designed. They took a while to warm up.

"Guh . . . ," he commented, '"wuh?"

Drowsiness clung to his body, still exhausted after
another long, solitary watch. How many duras had




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passed since he had tumbled into the bunk, vowing to
quit his commission when this tour of duty ended?

Sleep had come swiftly, but not restfully. Dreams al-
ways filled Harry's slumber, here in E Space.

In fact, dreaming was part of the job.

In REM state. Harry often revisited the steppes of Horst,
where a dusty horizon had been his constant back-