"George Alec Effinger - Slow, Slow Burn" - читать интересную книгу автора (Effinger George Alec)

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 Slow, Slow Burn
by George Alec Effinger



Honey marches, in tight zebraskin pantsтАФnot zebra-stripe, but the

genuine pelt of a former zebra, which is becoming less obtainable all

the timeтАФand a gauzy moir├й tunic created by the actual hands of

Lenci Urban of PragueтАФnot by one of his underling designers but by

Lenci himself, making the design even dearer than the zebraskinтАФ

back and forth in front of the long, high picture window. Kit watches

her eclipse first the lighthouse beyond, then the strings of lights

marking the marina, then the sallow moon maundering over the

ocean. Honey reaches the far end of the room and turns, blocking

the moon again. In the air is the heavy scent of incense, church

incense, the fragrance Honey loves best, because she thinks it

reminds her of her childhood. Kit hates it, and he's panting in

shallow breaths. In a corner of the room is the largest commercial

datalink money can buy. Kit sits at the keyboard and calls up the

first reactions to Slow, Slow Burn. Honey watches it indict her.
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 Slow, Slow Burn
by George Alec Effinger



Total sales for the first seven hours of release: 825,000 units.

тАЬEight hundred thousand,тАЭ she says. She is carrying half a melon

in one hand, hacking at it with a knife she holds in the other, and

flicking seeds across the dusty-rose carpet.