"Michael Flynn - Eifelheim" - читать интересную книгу автора (Flynn Michael)

For God is deaf nowadays and will not hear us,

And for our guilt he grinds good men to dust.

Williman Langland, Piers Ploughman




CтАЩest le chemin quтАЩon appelle le Val dтАЩEnfer. Que votre Altesse me pardonne

lтАЩexpression; je ne suis pas diable pour y passer.

Marshal Villars, regarding the H├╢llenthal, 1702
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Preface: Anton

I know where the path to the stars lies. The gate opened once, a long time ago and in a far
and unlikely place. And then it closed. This is the story of how it opened and of how it closed

and perhaps of what hinged upon it.

You see, Sharon Nagy was a physicist and Tom Schwoerin was a cliologist. That was the
heart of the business right there. That was the beginning of it and the end of it and most of what

happened in between.

Or perhaps you donтАЩt, for the seeing was not easy. Medieval settlement patterns and multiple
brane theory seem worlds apart. Indeed, they are worlds apart, tangent only in that small

apartment in Philadelphia that Tom and Sharon shared. But at such close quarters they could not

avoid learning a little of each otherтАЩs work, and that was the fulcrum on which they turned the
world.
But I was into the affair last and least of all, and perhaps it would be best to let the story tell

itself.
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I. August, 1348