"Crawford Killian - The Empire of Time" - читать интересную книгу автора (Killian Crawford)

"You're too fair. A blind man has no point of view." Wigner gestured to the
hologram on the wall behind him. "Pitt's seen that picture, but he doesn't
understand that it makes his petty nationalism pointless."

The hologram, a meter on a side, was a view of Ulro taken by a drone space
probe. The continentsтАФNorth America, Europe, part of AfricaтАФwere pinkish-
brown and sharply outlined against the dirty gray of the empty ocean basins.
Everything looked very clear, because there was almost no atmosphere on the
Earth of the twenty-third century. In the hologram, noon was about on the
meridian of London. In its ruined streets, the temperature would be close to 100┬░


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C. A thin, fierce CO2 wind would be hissing over the fused rubble. Pierce knew
what it was like in that London; he had been there once, and elsewhere on Ulro
four other times.

Wigner, meditating, filled his pipe and lit ft.

"Sometimes," he finally said, "I think the historic chronoplanes are more trouble
than they're worth. Too stable, too backwardтАФnothing but raw materials and
Trainable manpower. Can't even colonize muchтАФstart getting endo revoltsтАж
Imagine a chronoplane between 1920, 1950? Get Fermi and Oppenheimer
working on the Doomsday problem."

Pierce laughed briefly. "If they were Trainable."

Wigner grinned around his pipe. "Levelheaded Jerry!"

"What's all this Colonial business?"

"You've talked to Judy. Mm. When were you last on Ore?"

"Two years agoтАФas you should know. That Secessionist mob in the Colonial
Police. Routine."

"Let's hope this is too. The Commissioner thereтАФ GersenтАФhas sent me a report
on suspected sabotage at the Weapons Development Site. He wants us to check
it out."

"Sabotage the WDS? Who? Culties?"



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