"Mel Gilden - Zoot Marlow 2 - Hawaiian UFO Aliens" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gilden Mel)Thumper pounded the flat of his hand against the floor and shouted 'Ahh-roooh! Zoot is back!' The rest
of them took up the cry. At my feet was a puddle of salt water big enough to do laps in. I waved at the crowd, told them that I had to change, and walked along the dark hall to Whipper Will's room. As far as I could tell, nothing had been touched. Nobody had washed the laundry, that was for sure. Feeling more like myself all the time, I went back into the bedroom and put on my Earth clothes. The brown suit felt natural. The trenchcoat and the fedora could wait. I was ready for anything now, so I went back into the bedroom and hefted Bill out of the closet. Even in the dim light. Bill's silver body shone. I could barely hear a song about surfing and young love that was playing on the TV in the other room. Rain blew against the side of the house, went away, came back even harder. I reached down and pulled the flypaper off Bill's head. He blinked and said, 'Bay City! Ya! Have a nice trip, Boss.' 'I had a nice trip, thanks. Now I'm back.' MEL GILDEN HAWAIIAN UFO ALIENS FANTAIL FANTAIL PUBLISHING, AN IMPRINT OF PUFFIN ENTERPRISES Published by the Penguin Group 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England. Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York NY 10010, USA. Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Ringwood, Victoria, Australia. Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd., 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand. Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England. First Published, 1989 First Published in Great Britain by Penguin Books, 1990 10 987654321 Copyright ┬й Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc., 1989 Zoot designed by David Dorman A Byron Preiss Book. All rights reserved 0140 901 833 Cover Illustration; James Manh Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form ofbinding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. FOR SIDNEY IWANTER: Friend in Need, Patron of the Arts. And A Guy Who Knows A Good Idea When He Sees One ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to Doctors Jon Davidson and An Yin of the U.C.L.A. Earth and Space Sciences Department for the geological information I put into the mouth of the man from Pasadena Tech in Chapter Twenty-Four. Any inaccuracies are my fault. I took lightning notes over the phone and may not have gotten all the facts down correctly. (The rest of the book, however, is definitely true. Really. Trust me.) Also, thanks to Ms. Sandra Borders, librarian first class, who gave me a lot of information. I didn't use much of it, but that's not her fault. 'The science of any sufficiently advanced race is indistinguishable from magic.' Arthur C. Clarke |
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