"Harry Harrison - Galactic Dreams" - читать интересную книгу автора (Harrison Harry)

"I do. This is the larshniks' prime base, the seat of operation of all their
drug and gambling traffic, where the whiteslavers offload and the queer green
is printed, site of the flnnx distilleries and lair of the pirate hordes.тАЭ
"If you want action that sounds like it!тАЭ Steel grimaced.

"You are not just whistling through your back teeth," the Colonel agreed. "If
I were younger and had a few less replaceable parts, this is the kind
opportunity I would leap at ....тАЭ

"You can be Chief Engineer," Jax hinted.

"Shut up," the Colonel implied. "Good luck, gentlemen, for the honor of the
C.C.C. rides with you.тАЭ

"But not the camels?тАЭ Steel asked.

"Maybe next time. There are, well, adjustment problems. We have lost four more
graduates since we have been sitting here. Maybe we'll even change animals.
Make it the C.D.C.тАЭ

"With combat dogs?тАЭ Jax asked.

"Either that or donkeys. Or dugongs. But that is my worry, not yours. All that
you guys have to do is get out there and crack Biru-2 wide open. I know you
can do it.тАЭ

If the stern-faced Corpsmen had any doubts, they kept them to themselves, for
that is the way of the Corps. They did what had to be done and next morning,
at exactly 0304:00 hours, the mighty bulk of the Indefectible hurled itself
into space. The roaring MacPherson engines poured quintillions of ergs of
energy into the reactor drive until they were safely outside of the gravity
field of Earth. Jax labored over the engines, shoveling the radioactive
transvestite into the gaping maw of the hungry furnace, until Steel signaled
from the bridge that it was changeover time. Then they changed over to the
space eating Kelly drive. Steel jammed home the button that activated the
drive and the great ship leaped starward at seven times the speed of light.
Since the drive was fully automatic, Jax freshened up in the fresher, while
his clothes were automatically washed in the washer, then proceeded to the
bridge.

(Note - When the inventor, Patsy Kelly, was asked how ships could move at
seven times the speed of light when the limiting velocity of matter, according
to Einstein, was the speed of light, he responded in his droll Goidelic way,
with a shrug, "Well-sure and I guess Einstein was wrong.тАЭ)

"Really," Steel said, his eyebrows climbing up his forehead. "I didn't know
you went in for polkadot jockstraps.тАЭ

"It was the only thing I had clean. The washer dissolved the rest of my