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

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How could they have slipped his mind during the months he wandered this barbarian world, by boat, barge, and caravan?

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Guilt might have engulfed him during that instant of recollection . . . except that his new friends urgently needed him to act, to seize the brief advantage offered by the explosion, to overcome their captors and take them prisoner.

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As dusk fell across the shredded tent and torn bodies, he had helped Sara and Kurt tie up their surviving foes-both urrish and human-although Sara seemed to think their reprieve temporary.

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More fanatic reinforcements were expected soon.

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Emerson knew what the rebels wanted. They wanted him. It was no secret that he came from the stars. The rebels would trade him to sky hunters, hoping to exchange his battered carcass for guaranteed survival.

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As if anything could save Jijo's castaway races, now that the Five Galaxies had found them.

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Huddled round a wan fire, lacking any shelter but tent rags, Sara and the others watched as terrifying portents crossed bitter-cold constellations.

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First came a mighty titan of space, growling as it plunged toward nearby mountains, bent on awful vengeance.

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Later, following the very same path, there came a second behemoth, this one so enormous that Jijo's pull seemed to lighten as it passed overhead, filling everyone with deep foreboding.

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Not long after that, golden lightning flickered amid the mountain peaks-a bickering of giants. But Emerson did not care who won. He could tell that neither vessel was his ship, the home in space he yearned for . . . and prayed he would never see again.

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With luck, Streaker was far away from this doomed world, bearing in its hold a trove of ancient mysteries-- perhaps the key to a new galactic era.

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Had not all his sacrifices been aimed at helping her escape?

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