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

clothes.тАЭ

"Don't worry about it. It's the larshniks of Biru-2 who have to worry! We hit
atmosphere in exactly seventeen minutes and I have been thinking about what to
do when that happens.тАЭ

"Well I certainly hope someone has! I haven't had time to draw a deep breath,
much less think!тАЭ

"Don't worry, old pal, we are in this together. The way I figure it we have
two choices. We can blast right in, guns roaring, or we can slip in by
stealth.тАЭ
"Oh, you really have been thinking, haven't you.тАЭ



"I'll ignore that because you are tired. Strong as we are I think the
land-based batteries are stronger. So I suggest that we slip in without being
noticed.тАЭ

"Isn't that a little hard when you are flying in a thirty-million-ton spacer?тАЭ

"Normally, yes. But do you see this button here marked invisibility? While you
were loading the fuel they explained this to me. It is a new invention, never
used in action before, that will render us invisible and impervious to
detection by any of their detection instruments.тАЭ

"Now that's more like it. Fifteen minutes to go, we should be getting mighty
close. Turn on the old invisibility ray . . . .тАЭ

"Don't!тАЭ

"Done. Now what's your problem?тАЭ

"Nothing really. Except that the experimental invisibility device is not
expected to last more than fifteen minutes before it burns out.тАЭ

Unhappily, this proved to be the case. One hundred miles above the barren,
blasted surface of Biru-2 the good old Indefectible popped into existence.



In the minutest fraction of a millisecond the mighty spacesonar and
super-radar had locked grimly onto the invading ship while the sublights
flickered their secret signals, waiting for a correct response that would
reveal the invader as one of theirs.

"I'll send a signal, stall them. These larshniks aren't too bright.тАЭ

Steel laughed. He thumbed on the microphone, switched to the intestellar