"Kathleen Ann Goonan - Nanotech 04 - Light Music" - читать интересную книгу автора (Goose Mother)

humans possessed.
A light coalesced in the southern part of the room, inevitable as
dawn.
It was that for which he had always waited. He knew it. This
light would, at last, tell him why .
 He took a step toward it, deeply and clearly aware, noting its
characteristics.
An ovoid ten feet high. A touch of the visible spectrum wavering
through it like a broad rainbow.
The music of it made his chest ache and brought tears to his eyes.
He said, ridiculously, тАЬYes?тАЭ
Thoughts flashed through him, their inferences unfurling into the
unseen distance too quickly for him to fathom, in deep, resonant
relationships. A billion harmonies stretched his senses to the limit
and then past, to the edge of hallucination.
Except that he knew that it was real. External. But meshing
with him somehow.
Changing him.
He knew he was experiencing the uncurling of an infinite array
of curled-up dimensions.
He was being fed with light, a new form of light. He did not know
how or why.
Infinity, before now an abstract concept to him, seemed almost
kinetic, dancing in each particle which comprised his body,
becoming united to all of time and matter in that crux where
everything had begun and expanded outward at unknowable speed.
The light vanished.
The stunned Engineer staggered forward, as if its energy had
been supporting him, and stood looking at the place where it had
been.
The tower was utterly silent.
He knew no one with whom he could discuss this. He wished his
old friend Zeb, the radio astronomer, was here with him. Yet how
could he possibly condense this into words? He was a gifted
mathematician, but this had opened new geometries which he had
barely glimpsed, which he would have to think himself back to, if
that was possible.
Something had happened. Something exciting; powerful.
 But what? And why?
тАЬBe back in a while,тАЭ Peabody told his cat, and received a
commanding picture of a fish in reply.
He paused for an instant, surprised and pleased.
Then he hurried from his Radio Room. He was edgyтАФentirely
awake, yet in an electric, dreamlike state.
As he dropped through a clear tube on an elevator platform, he
had a momentary sensation that the lights below and above were
points in interstellar space, that he was finally embarked on the
epic voyage he had lost faith in.
He headed for the place in which some of the most exciting
scientific work of the city had been done, including the initial