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

тАЬI'll crush that plastic-puss synthetic could have a quick look now to see why
imitation of a man back into his original the Machs have failed. I told them we
chemicals !тАЭ I said furiously. would if we could.тАЭ
тАЬGrag, donтАЩt lose your temperтАФit's bad тАЬWhat's all this got to do with my
for you if you have any psychotic trouble,тАЭ condition ?тАЭ I demanded.
Curt reminded me. тАЬThisтАФI want you to go out there and
That cooled me down. I'd forgotten my look things over,тАЭ he explained. тАЬSimon
precarious psychological condition. and I are busy with the Andromeda data.
Captain Future continued quickly, But you could run out there and
тАЬGrag, you said your psychoanalyst told investigate, since naturally the poison there
you to get away from people to cure your doesn't affect you and you wouldn't need
inferiority complex ?тАЭ any protection.
тАЬYesтАФhe said people were bad for me тАЬIt'll give you the change your doctor
and that New York was especially bad that ordered, Grag. It'd get you away from
way, so I wasn't to come back to him,тАЭ I humans for there's nobody on Dis except
said. those Machs. And they're merely clever
CurtтАЩs face again twisted in that queer automatic machinesтАФyou could set them
strained look I knew indicated deep worry. right wherever they've gone wrong and get
тАЬHe wasn't so dumb,тАЭ Captain Future them to working again.тАЭ
commented. тАЬBut I think he was right. I

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think it might do you good to get away THOUGHT it over. I hated to leave
from humansтАФI mean of course us other Curt but after all, I had to follow
humansтАФfor a little while. doctor's orders.
тАЬAnd it so happens,тАЭ he went on, тАЬthat тАЬIt'll be pretty tough on me with only a
you can carry out a rather urgent mission bunch of dumb machines like that for
for us at the same time. You've heard of company,тАЭ I said.
the moon Dis ?тАЭ тАЬYes, their reaction-circuits are of the
тАЬPluto's fourth little moon ?тАЭ I said. most elementary sort,тАЭ Curt admitted. тАЬBut
тАЬThe one where they do the remote-control you can soon set them right, Grag. They'll
actinium mining ?тАЭ naturally be absolutely subservient to
Captain Future nodded. тАЬThat's the youтАФsubservience to human commands is
place. ItтАЩs rich in actinium but has a inherent in their circuits.тАЭ
poisonous atmosphere that instantly kills тАЬWell, I don't like to leave human
oxygen-breathers. So it has been exploited society to give orders to a lot of dumb
by automatic machine-workers, which mindless machines but if Doctor Perker
mine, crush and load the actinium into thinks it'll be good for my condition I'll do
barges to be picked up without need of any it.тАЭ
humans living on the poisonous little тАЬGrag, I think it'd be the best thing in
moon. the world for your inferiority complex,тАЭ
тАЬBut now something's wrong there. Captain Future said, smiling in his relief.
They told me at Government headquarters My preparations were soon made. I
that they'd got a flash on it from the ship wouldnтАЩt need the CometтАФthe space-sled
that went to Dis to pick up the loaded would be enough for me. It was a
barges. The barges weren't loaded this time streamlined craft I'd built for my own
and the Machs, the automatic machine- useтАФnobody else could use it for it had no
workers, were not around. overdeck, no air-supply, no rest-cabin. It
was a long slim open hull or boat with