"Edmond Hamilton - Pardon My Nerves" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hamilton Edmond)

thundering mob, I was sure that my mind тАЬWhat are you doing here ? Who are
had gone. This must be all delusion. Yet it you ?тАЭ I demanded.
seemed real to me. The Earthman shrank from me.
The bitterness of it crushed me. My too- тАЬIтАЩll do what they ask !тАЭ he babbled.
great demands on my tremendous brain тАЬIтАЩll give you intelligence ! Just be
had been too much for it. I had cracked up patient!тАЭ
and probably would never even be able to тАЬGive me intelligence ?тАЭ I roared.
return home. тАЬWhat are you talking about ?тАЭ
Curt would grieve. Simon would miss He stared at me. Then, fearfully, he
me. Even Otho would miss me. They had came a little closer to me.
leaned upon me so long, relying on me to тАЬWhy, you're not a Mach,тАЭ he breathed.
pull them out of perilous difficulties. The тАЬYou're a robot.тАЭ
Futuremen could not last long without me. тАЬRobot ?тАЭ I yelled. тАЬAre you trying to
All the time the Mach horde that seemed insult me ? I'm Grag the Futureman !тАЭ
so real was rumbling, clanking and jolting тАЬA Futureman ?тАЭ he cried. тАЬI've heard
on over the drab plain with me. Soon we that one of them is a roтАФI mean, a metal
again came in sight of the work-base.


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man. Then Captain Future is here on Dis ? тАЬI installed the brains. I watched the
Thank God !тАЭ Machs as their visual and aural senses
тАЬHe's not but I am !тАЭ I told him. poured sensations into their new electronic
тАЬWhatтАЩs all this about ?тАЭ cortices. I saw them rapidly develop
He was shaking all over. I had to let him volition, the sense of self-preservation, the
sit down and collect himself before he ability to compare.тАЭ
could speak. тАЬYou mean that it was you who got
I saw now that the room of the shelter these Machs off the beam ?тАЭ I cried, the
was fitted up as a physical laboratory. sense of what he was saying now
There was a poison-proof protective suit penetrating.
hanging in a corner. There were Gordon nodded, looking haggard. тАЬYes.
complicated apparatus and instruments that But my success was too great. Before I
crowded the place. knew it they developed so much
He began to speak unsteadily. тАЬI'm individuality and intelligence that they
Doctor Hollis Gordon of New York refused longer to work in the ore-beds !
Cybernetics Foundation. I came here two They just roam around and let the Tenders
months ago.тАЭ take care of them.тАЭ
тАЬOn the ore pick-up ship ?тАЭ I asked. тАЬSo that's why no ore was mined !тАЭ I
тАЬWhy did they leave you ?тАЭ exclaimed. тАЬBut why didn't you go back ?
тАЬNo, I didn't come on the ore-ship,тАЭ Why did you stay here ?тАЭ
Gordon said. тАЬI came secretly and alone in His voice rose hysterically. тАЬThey
a small flier. You see, I had resolved to wouldn't let me ! They called me their
engage upon an experiment for which I had Liberator for giving them intelligence but
no permission. they wouldn't let me returnтАФand to make
тАЬAs a cyberneticist my whole life has sure I didnтАЩt, they took my flier away and
been spent in the study of synthetic hid it.тАЭ
mechanical intelligence. I had evolved He added suddenly, тАЬJust as they're
some new theories on the design of taking away your craft now ! Apparently
electronic brains. They had worked in they donтАЩt want anyone leaving here !тАЭ
laboratory models and I wanted to try them I sprang to the window. It was true.