"Alan Dean Foster - Flinx 7 - Bloodhype" - читать интересную книгу автора (Foster Alan Dean)

ISBN 0?345?31021?7



Manufactured in the United States of America



First Edition: March 1973

Eighth Printing: May 1984



Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet

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For

Lynette Harrington

who lives around the corner

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I eat, therefore I am.

Such was the extent of the Vom's consciousness.

This had not always been so, but at the moment there was no way the Vom
could become aware of it. The mechanical process of remembering required
energy the Vent did not have to spare. All of the tiny amount of radiant
energy from the system's sun that the Vom could convert was needed to
preserve the life?sense.

To do this the Vom had assumed a special configuration. At present it
varied in thickness from a few millimeters to several microns. It had done


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this out of necessity, millennia ago. How many millennia? The Vom did not
know or remember.

It couldn't spare the energy.

The system hadn't always been dead. At one time this planet had harbored a