"Tony Daniel - Earthling" - читать интересную книгу автора (Daniel Tony)

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
ISBN 0-312-87086-8
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PS3554.A558E28 1997
813'.54тАФ dc21 97-24800
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For my brother, David Martin Daniel
? THE ROBOT'S TWILIGHT COMPANION

? Thermostatic preintegration memory thread alpha:

The Man

27 March 1980

The Cascade Range, Washington State, USA

Thursday

Rhyolite dreams. Maude under the full moon, collecting ash. Pale andesite clouds. Earthquake swarms.
Water heat pressure. Microscopy dates the ash old. Not magma. Not yet. Maude in the man's sleeping
bag, again.

"I'm not sure we're doing the right thing, Victor. This couldn't have come at a more difficult time for me."

Harmonic tremors, though. Could be the big one. Maude, dirty and smiling, copulating with the man
among seismic instruments.

"Saint Helens is going to blow, isn't it, Victor?" she whispers. Strong harmonies from the depths of the
planet. Magmas rising. "You know, don't you, Victor? You can feel it. How do you feel it?"
Yes.

"Yes."

18 May 1980