"FWLS2" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

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Escher's house was one of the oddest polygons I had need in
the net before. You gotta admit, the guy had glass.

"A MOBEIUS house?!?" Gosub exclaimed.

"Looks like it," I said. "Great, ain't it?"

"Yeah, but where's the door?"

"Simple enough to answer. Swift?"

"Yeah?" the AI said.

"Find the door."

"Righty o," he said, walking casually up to the floating-
strip-in-the-simulated-sky and promptly twisting an invisible
knob, opening an invisible door.

"Not bad," I said. "Even when it's open it's invisible.
Come on, then."

Gosub tagging along like a grumpy dog, I walked directly
through the polygon and into a hallway.

"Argh," Gosub said. "Mirrors."

Sure enough, the hallway was coated in reflective surfaces.
Swift must have a good system to be able to simulate infinity
like that. To add to the fun, the hallway progressively twisted
to the left until it had twisted one 'undred eighty.

"Infinity style of thing," I commented.

"How can you tell which way is up?"

"Don't bother. It's all simulated physics, yaknow. I just
choose to ignore it."

"Heads up," Swift said, as a smallish lump formed on the
'ceiling'. The lump congealed, pulling mirror material off the
wall, the blob finally yanking itself free, as if it was a bubble
of mercury in zero g. It finally formed a shape, much like a
small, very reflective dragon.

"Unknown quantity," it hissed metallically, glancing us
over. "State type."