"Brin, David - Uplift 5 - Infinity's Shore" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brin David)

Mountains.

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He stopped his gyre to stare at the nearby continent--inhabited, they now knew. But by whom?

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There was not supposed to be any sapient life on Jijo.

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Maybe they're just hiding here, the way we are, from a hostile cosmos.

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That was one theory.

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At least they chose a pleasant world, he added, relishing the air, the water, and gorgeous ranks of cumulus hovering over a giant mountain. I wonder if the fish are good to eat.

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* As we await you,

* Chafing in this cramped airlock,

* Should we play pinochle? *

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Kaa winced at the lieutenant's sarcasm. Hurriedly, he sent back pulsed waves.

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* Fortune smiles again,

* On our weary band of knaves.

* Welcome, friends, to Ifni's Shore. *

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It might seem presumptuous to invoke the goddess of chance and destiny, capricious Ifni, who always seemed ready to plague Streaker's company with one more surprise. Another unexpected calamity, or miraculous escape.

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But Kaa had always felt an affinity with the informal patron deity of spacers. There might be better pilots than himself in the Terragens Survey Service, but none with a deeper respect for fortuity. Hadn't his own nickname been "Lucky"?