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

ground in childhood. A forlorn world, where ponderous
dark clouds loomed and flickered, yet held tightly to
their moisture, sharing little with the parched ground.
He usually woke from such visions with a desiccated
mouth, desperate for water.

Other dreams featured EarthЧjangling city-planet,
brimming with tall humansЧits skyscrapers and lush
greenery stamped in memory by one brief visit, ages

ago, in another life.

Then there were nightmares about shipsЧgreat bat-
tlecraft and moonlike invasion arksЧglistening by star-
light or cloaked in the dark glow of their terrible fields.
Wraithlike frigates, looming more eerie and terrifying

than real life.

Those were the more normal dream images to come
creeping in, whenever his mind had room between far
stranger apparitions. For the most part, Harry's night
thoughts were filled with spinning, dizzying allaphors,
which billowed and muttered in the queer half-logic of
E Space. Even his shielded quarters weren't impervious
to tendrils of counterreality, penetrating the bulkheads,
groping through his sleep. No wonder he woke disori-
ented, shaken by the grating alarm.

Harry stared at the glowing lettersЧeach twisting like
some manic, living hieroglyph, gesticulating in the ideo-
grammatic syntax of Galactic Language Number Seven.
Concentrating, he translated the message into the Anglic
of his inner thoughts.

"Great," Harry commented in a dry voice.

Apparently, the patrol vessel had come aground
again.

"Oh, that's just fine."

Heaven's ReacH 5

The buzzer increased its tempo. Pushing out of bed,
Harry landed barefoot on the chill deck plates, shiver-
ing.

"And to think . . . they tell me I got an aptitude for
this kind of work."