"Mel Gilden - Zoot Marlow 1 - Surfing Samurai Robots" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gilden Mel)

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. тАШBu
2. Surfs Up!
3. Shut Up and Deal
4. Good Enough For Any World
5. Fake Detective
6. Tough Patter
7. The Tour
8. No Admittance
9. The Biplanes of Samson Andelilah
10. Knighten Daise, You Are the One
11. A Nasty Idea
12. The Money in Sagging Flesh
13. Hangs
14. No White Tie, No Tails
15. Hard Work
16. Crashing, Bashing, Smashing
17. No Particular Gorillas
18. Back to the Salt Mines
19. What Goes Around Comes Around
20. Hello, Marlowe, Hello
21. Hired Help
22. A Family Resemblance
23. Like Father, Like Daughter
24. Promises, Promises
25. More or Less Human
26. Gorillas and Friends of Gorillas
27. One Aggro Dude
SURFING SAMURAI ROBOTS
INTRODUCTION
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I WAS a long way from TтАЩtoom.
The computers did most of the work aboard my ship, the Philip Marlowe, and I had plenty of leisure
in which to think about how I had come to be there, miles above an obscure planet, and falling toward its
biggest ocean.
TтАЩtoom was a nice place, and you would absolutely want to live there. I did, anyway, for a long time.
When I first heard the signals the AW-OL guys were pulling in with their backyard rig, I was working
for TтАЩtoom Gravitational Products, the family business Grampa Zamp had started when he was about my
age.
I was running slaberingeo ear spines through a vat of fixer, so that the anti-gravity stuff covering the
spines wouldnтАЩt rot. I grew up to hate slaberingeo spines. They smelled bad, and they left behind tiny
itchy hairs that you could never get rid of entirely, no matter how much you washed.
I had stopped to enjoy a thorough and useless scratch when my radio played a recording of the first
signal AW-OL received. The eerie sounds didnтАЩt make any sense to me then. But like a lot of people, I
never forgot where I was when I heard them.
AW-OL meant Alien Worlds-Overhearing Life. These guys had aimed a big dish at the sky, trying to