"Stefan Gagne - Haven Borne" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gagne Stefan)

will forever change the universe, throwing another species into the fray...



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A far, far time from now in a galaxy now so long, long away, there

were four Space Patrollers who had a habit of getting into trouble. Weird

trouble. Dangerous trouble. Strange trouble. The kind of trouble that makes

for very fat books reviewers seem to enjoy.



This is not their story.



Instead, it is the story of a person, or rather a faux persona, who

one of the Patrollers happened to have met in a simulation of an old BBC

science fiction show. It is the story of that person and what became of

him, or it, or whatever you might call anartifical intelligence.



It is a story that doesn't take place in reality as we know it, but a

very mediocre simulation thereof. It is a story of alifeform bound to that

simulation, and the problems inherent in being tied down to such a

system...
 Living with yourself when you know you don't technically exist is a

pretty hard thing to do.



Number Two groaned as his alarm clock program rang out with poorly

digitized bell noises, and knocked it across the room. The clock didn't

break; theMacroware complex removed the object self-destruction routines