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

shaky and dizzy and as if I had been kicked in the stomach. Then my mouth filled with saliva and I gulped
and I was awfully sorry I had eaten that chocolate.

But it didn't come up, not quite.

The only thing that saved me was no breakfast. Some of the others were not so lucky. I tried not to look
at them. I had intended to unstrap as soon as we went free and go to a port so I could look at Earth, but
I lost interest in that project entirely. I stayed strapped down, and concentrated on being miserable.
The stewardess came floating out the hatch from the next deck, shoved herself along with a toe, checked
herself with a hand at the center stanchion, and hovered in the air in a swan dive, looking us over. It was
very pretty to watch if I'd been in shape to appreciate it.

тАЬIs everybody comfy?тАЭ she said cheerfully.

It was a silly remark but I suppose nurses get that way. Somebody groaned and a baby on the other
side of the compartment started to cry. The stewardess moved over to Mrs. Tarbutton and said, тАЬYou
may have breakfast now. What would you like? Scrambled eggs?тАЭ

I clamped my jaw and turned my head away, wishing she would shut up. Then I looked back. She had
paid for that silly remarkтАФand she had to clean it up.

When she was through with Mrs. Tarbutton I said, тАЬUh-oh, MissтАФтАЭ

тАЬAndrews.тАЭ

тАЬMiss Andrews, could I change my mind about that drop-sick injection?тАЭ

тАЬRighto, chum,тАЭ she agreed, smiling, and whipped out an injector from a little kit she had at her belt. She
gave me the shot. It burned and for a moment I thought I was going to lose the chocolate after all. But
then things quieted down and I was almost happy in a miserable sort of way.

She left me and gave shots to some others who had kidded themselves the same way I had. Mrs.
Tarbutton she gave another sort of shot to knock her out entirely. One or two of the hardier souls
unstrapped themselves and went to the ports; I decided I was well enough to try it.

It's not as easy as it looks, this swimming around in free fall. I undid the safety belts and sat up; that's all I
meant to do. Then I was scrambling in the air, out of control, trying frantically to grasp at anything.

I turned over in the air and cracked the back of my head against the underside of the control room deck
and saw stars, not the ones out the portsтАФsome of my own. Then the deck with the couches on it was
approaching me slowly.

I managed to grab a safety belt and came to anchor. The couch it belonged to was occupied by a little
plump man. I said, тАЬExcuse me.тАЭ

He said, тАЬDon't mention it,тАЭ and turned his face away, looking as if he hated me. I couldn't stay there and
I couldn't even get back to my own couch without grabbing handholds on other couches that were
occupied, too, so I pushed off again, very gently this time, and managed to grab hold when I bumped
against the other deck.