"Jeffrey D. Kooistra - Dykstra's War" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kooistra Jeffrey D)

"The man responsible for the Belt antimatter successes. I can think of only one person who could have
sorted it out. He lives in the Belt."

"Who?"

"Arie Hague."

"Hey! I've heard of him. He's the guy that found thatтАФ"

Dykstra cut him off. "Found that mistake in the Dykstra gravity equations. I've been hearing about that
for twenty years. The fact that it wasn't a mistake he found doesn't change the perception on the part of
the public . . . or my colleagues, for that matter."

"You disagree?"

Dykstra took a deep breath. "No point in letting myself get worked up about it all over again," he said.
"What Hague found was a discontinuity in the full five-dimensional expression of my gravity equations.
I knew it was there. I ignored it because it was physically irrelevant. It still seems that wayтАФHague
never has demonstrated any reason why the discontinuity shouldn't just be ignored." His tone lightened.
"Still, to have even found it . . .

"Oh, well, this is beside the point. In my judgment, Arie Hague is the one person beside myself who I'm
certain understands the physics involved well enough to have invented the Belt antimatter process."

"So, we're going to kidnap Arie Hague?"

"Yes, but what's the justification? Why are you kidnapping him?"

"Hell, that's easy. If he's all you say he is, then just taking him away from the Belt is enough reason.
Besides, once he's here, we might be able to bribe or coerce him into working for us. We've already seen
what one super genius can do," Nachtegall added, grinning.

"There's one other reason you probably haven't heard about yet. If it's Hague, I think I know what he'll
be working on here, provided we can get him to do it."



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 - Chapter 1

"What?"

"The alien faster-than-light drive. If it exists, that is."

Nachtegall's eyes went wide. "I have heard some things. But most of the other technogeeks, I mean,
scientists, don't believe the aliens have one."

"And not without good reason," Dykstra said. "A few months ago I would have agreed that FTL drives
are an impossibility."