"C M Kornbluth - Make Mine Mars" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kornbluth C M)

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THIS IS THE MARS BUREAU OF INTERSTELLAR NEWS. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT
ARE YOU DOING HORSING AROUND ON OUR KRUEGER 60-B CIRCUIT TELETYPE
QUESTIONMARK. WHERE IS REGULAR STAFFER. GO AHEAD



THATK WOT I AM CALLING YOU ABBOUUT. KENNEDY DIED THIS
MORNINGPNEUMONIA. I AM WEEMS EDITOR PHOENIX. U SENDING REPLLACE-MENT
KENNEDY PLEAS
THIS MCGILLICUDDY, MARSBUO ISN CHIEF. SEND- ! ING REPLACEMENT
KENNEDY SOONEST. HAVE IDEAL MAN FOR JOB. END. !



That was all. It was enough.



"Chief," I said to McGillicuddy. "Chief, you can't You wouldn'tтАФwould you?"



"Better get packed," he told me, busily marking up copy, i



"Better take plenty of nice, warm clothing. I understand Krueger 60-B is about one thousand times
dimmer than the sun. That's absolute magnitude, of courseтАФFrostbite's in quite close. A primitive
community, I'm told. Kennedy, didn't like it. But of course the poor old duffer wasn't good enough to
handle anything swifter than a one-man bureau on a one-planet split. Better take lots of warm clothing."



"I quit," I said.



"Sam," said somebody, in a voice that always makes me turn to custard inside.



"Hello, EUie," I said. "I was just telling Mr. McGillicuddy that he isn't going to shoot me off to Frostbite
to rot."