"Joe Haldeman - Forever Free" - читать интересную книгу автора (Haldeman Joe)

war, we have to become more. To
stop war, we have to become gods.
-To stop war, make men gods.


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book one



THE BOOK OF GENESIS



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Chapter one



Winter is a long time coming on this god-forsaken planet, and it stays too long, too. I
watched a sudden gust blow a line of cold foam across the grey lake and thought about Earth, not
for the first time that day. The two warm winters in San Diego when I was a boy. Even the bad
winters in Nebraska. They were at least short.

Maybe we were too quick to say no, when the magnanimous zombies offered to share Earth with
us, after the war. We didn't really get rid of them, coming here.

Cold radiated from the windowpane. Marygay cleared her throat behind me. "What is it?" she
said.

"Looks like weather. I ought to check the trotlines."

"Kids will be home in an hour."

"Better I do it now, dry, than all of us stand out in the rain," I said. "Snow, whatever."

"Probably snow." She hesitated, and didn't offer to help. After twenty years she could tell