"Nancy Kress - Saviour" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kress Nancy)

ALIEN FIELD MAY BE FORM OF BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE,
SAY SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER RIDICULES STANFORD STATEMENT

MINNESOTA STATE COURT THROWS OUT CASE CLAIMING
CONTAMINATED GROUND WATER NEAR ALIEN OBJECT

SPACE SHIELD MAY BE PENETRATED BY UNDETECTED COSMIC
RAYS, SAYS FRENCH SCIENTIST

SPACE-OBJECTT-SHIRTS RULED OBSCENE BY LOCAL TOURIST
COUNCIL, REMOVED FROM VENDOR STANDS

NEUTRINO STREAM TURNED BACK FROM
SPACE SHIELD IN EXPENSIVE HIGH-TECH FIASCO:
Congress to Review All Peer-Judged Science Funding

WOMAN CLAIMS UNDER HYPNOSIS TO HEAR VOICES FROM
SPACE OBJECTтАФKENT STATE SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATING

PRESIDENT LOSES ELECTION BY LARGEST MARGIN EVER

"MY TWIN SONS WERE FATHERED BY THE OBJECT,"
CLAIMS SENATOR'S DAUGHTER, RESISTS DNA TESTING
Polls Show 46% of Americans Believe Her

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Jim Cowell, contemptuous of the senator's daughter, was forced to acknowledge
that he had waited a lifetime for his own irrational belief to be justified. Which it
never had.

"Just a little farther, Dad," Barbara said. "You OK?"

Cowell nodded in his wheelchair, and slowed it to match Barbara's pace. She
wheezed a little these days; losing weight wouldn't hurt her. He had learned over the
years not to mention this. Ahead, the last check-point materialized out of the fog. A
bored soldier leaned out of the low window, his face lit by the glow of a holoscreen.
"Yes?"

"We have authorization to approach the object," Cowell said. He could never think
of it as anything else, despite all the names the tabloid press had hung on it over the
last decades. The Alien Invader. The Space Fizzle. Silent Alien Cal.

"Approach for retina scan," the soldier said. Cowell wheeled his chair to the
checker, leaned in close. "OK, you're cleared. Ma'am? OK. Proceed." The soldier
stuck his head back in the window, and the screen made one of the elaborate noises
that accompanied the latest hologame.