"Edmond Hamilton - Children of the Sun" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hamilton Edmond)

Newton and the android and robot began
the terrible power of the gigantic solar orb
pushing aside the ocher soil above the
so close by that could reach in through a
cupola of the buried building.
single loophole and wreak this flaming
Something flashed and hissed in the
devastation where it touched.
dusk. Curt Newton whirled. A long
They crossed the end of that blackened
quivering spear stuck in the slope some
strip, Curt and Otho hastening over the hot
distance below them.
rocks, Grag plodding stolidly, Simon
тАЬI thought the Vulcanians were still with
gliding ahead.
us !тАЭ Otho muttered.
Before them the fern jungle rose into
Newton said quietly, тАЬJust stand still.
olive-colored hills, growing dark as the
Let me talk to them.тАЭ
dusk deepened. Almost at once Newton
He faced down the slope toward the fern
noticed something on the slope of the
jungle. He called out in the language he
nearest hill. It was a raw lumpy scar where
had learned on his first visit to this lost
a landslide had recently occurred.
worldтАФa debased form of the once-
тАЬSimon, look at that landslide ! Notice
beautiful language of the Old Empire, sunk
anything ?тАЭ
now into barbarism like the men who
The Brain hovered, his lens-eyes
spoke it.
surveying the dusky hillside. тАЬYes, the
тАЬShow us your faces, my brothers ! We
outline. Definitely unnatural.тАЭ
come as friends and our hands are empty
Otho and Grag were staring now, too.
of death !тАЭ
тАЬI don't see anything unnatural about it,тАЭ
There was utter silence. In the distance
boomed the metal giant.
the fading shaft of sunlight lay like a
тАЬIt covers a building that stood on that
tarnished sword across the dusk. The dense
hillside,тАЭ Newton informed him. тАЬLook at
jungle below was untouched by wind or
the symmetry of it, even masked by soilтАФ