"Robert A. Heinlein - Farmer In The Sky" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert A)

take me long to straighten things out. After dinner I let him beat me two games, then said, тАЬLook,
GeorgeтАФтАФтАЭ

тАЬYes?тАЭ

тАЬYou know what we were talking about?тАЭ

тАЬWell, yes.тАЭ

тАЬIt's this way. I'm under age; I can't go if you won't let me. Seems to me you ought to, but if you don't, I
won't quit school. In any case, you ought to goтАФyouneed to goтАФyou know why. I'm asking you to
think it over and take me along, but I'm not going to be a baby about it.тАЭ

Dad almost looked embarrassed. тАЬThat's quite a speech, Son. You mean you're willing to let me go, you
stay here and go to school, and not make a fuss about it?тАЭ

тАЬWell, not 'willing'-but I'd put up with it.тАЭ

тАЬThanks.тАЭ Dad fumbled in his pouch and pulled out a flat photo. тАЬTake a look at this.тАЭ

тАЬWhat is it?тАЭ

тАЬYour file copy of your application for emigration. I submitted it two days ago.тАЭ

2. The Green-Eyed Monster

I wasn't much good in school for the next few days. Dad cautioned me not to get worked up over it;
they hadn't approved our applications as yet. тАЬYou know, Bill, ten times as many people apply as can
possibly go.тАЭ

тАЬBut most of them want to go to Venus or Mars. Ganymede is too far away; that scares the sissies out.тАЭ

тАЬI wasn't talking about applications for all the colonies; I meant applications for Ganymede, specifically
for this first trip of theMayflowerтАЭ

тАЬEven so, you can't scare me. Only about one in ten can qualify. That's the way it's always been.тАЭ

Dad agreed. He said that this was the first time in history that some effort was being made to select the
best stock for colonization instead of using colonies as dumping grounds for misfits and criminals and
failures. Then he added, тАЬBut look, Bill, what gives you the notion that you and I can necessarily qualify?
Neither one of us is a superman,тАЭ

That rocked me back on my heels. The idea that we might not be good enough hadn't occurred to me.
тАЬGeorge, they couldn't turn usdown!тАЭ

тАЬThey could and they might.тАЭ

тАЬBut how? They need engineers out there and you're tops. MeтАФI'm not a genius but I do all right in
school. We're both healthy and we don't have any bad mutations; we aren't color blind or bleeders or
anything like that.тАЭ