"Nancy Kress - Nano Comes to Clifford Falls" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kress Nancy)


"A ride! A ride!" Will shouted.

"Not today, Will, we're gong to see Jon and Don." That distracted him; Emma's twins are his best
friends.

Emma met me at the door dressed in a gorgeous yellow sundress with a low neck and full skirt. Emma
was always pretty, even when we were thirteen, but I'd never seen her look like this. She'd done things
to live up to the dress, fixed her hair and put on make-up and even had on rhinestone earrings.
"God, you look amazing!" I said, in my old jeans with baby puke on my T-shirt. Emma touched her
earrings.

"Real diamonds, Carol! Ted used his second pick at the nanomachine to choose these!"

I gaped at her. The nanomachine could make real diamonds? Will barreled past me toward Don and Jon
and I saw that all three of them jumped onto a new blue sofa covered with the nicest material I'd ever
seen.

All I could think of to say was, "I brought you a sponge cake. A thank-you for all you done when the
kids were sick."

"Well, aren't you the sweetest thing. Thank you. I'd offer you a piece now but, well, Kitty'll be here in a
few minutes to take the twins."

Kitty Svenson was the teenager who babysat for everybody. She was saving up for secretarial school.
Ted came out from the bedroom dressed in a bathrobe.

"Oh, God, Ted, have you got this diarrhea-thing, too? I'm sorry, it's a bitch. Come on, Will, let's go. Em,
I can take the twins while Ted's sick."

"I'm not sick, Carol," Ted said. Emma blushed. I was really confused. This was a Tuesday morning.

"I quit the factory," Ted said. "No need to kill myself working now."

"But ... the mortgage...."

"The nano's making us a house," Emma said proudly.

"A house? A whole house?"

"One part of a room at a time," Ted said. "Em and I are both using all our picks for it. We'll put it on that
piece of land my daddy left me by the lake, and the whole house'll finish just before the bank forecloses
on this one. I got it all figured out."

"But..." My brain wasn't working right. I just couldn't take it in, somehow.

"The food nano is making all our meals now," Emma said. "Just churning 'em out like sausages. Here,
Carol, taste this." She darted into the kitchen, earrings swinging, and came back with a bowl of small
round things like smooth nuts.