"Herbert, Frank - Destination Void 3 - The Lazarus Effect" - читать интересную книгу автора (Herbert Brian & Frank)

1. Destination Void
2. The Jesus Incident
-> 3. The Lazarus Effect
4. The Ascension Factor





The Lazarus Effect

Frank Herbert
Bill Ransom

1983





For Brian, Bruce and Penny. For all the years they tiptoed while their father was writing.

Frank Herbert



For all those healers who ease our suffering; for people who feed people, then ask them for virtue; for our friends -- gratitude and affection.

Bill Ransom










The Histories assert that a binary system cannot support life. But we found life here on Pandora. Except for the kelp, it was antagonistic and deadly, but still it was life. Ship's judgment is upon us now because we wiped out the kelp and unbalanced this world. We few survivors are subject to the endless sea and the terrible vagaries of the two suns. That we survive at all on our fragile Clone-rafts is as much a curse as a victory. This is the time of madness.

-- Hali Ekel, the Journals


Duque smelled burning flesh and scorched hair. He sniffed, sniffed again, and whined. His one good eye watered and pained him when he tried to knuckle it open. His mother was out. Out was a word he could say, like hot and Ma. He could not precisely identify the location and shape of out. He knew vaguely that his quarters were on a Clone-raft anchored off a black stone pinnacle, all that remained of Pandora's land surface.

The burning smells were stronger now. They frightened him. Duque wondered if he should say something. Mostly, he did not talk; his nose got in the way. He could whistle through his nose, though, and his mother understood. She would whistle back. Between them, they understood more than a hundred whistle-words. Duque wriggled his forehead. This uncurled his thick, knobby nose and he whistled -- tentative at first to see whether she was near.

"Ma? Where are you, Ma?"