"Barry B. Longyear - Murder in Parliment Street" - читать интересную книгу автора (Longyear Barry)

I had just completed my examination when I was joined by ShadтАЩs
micro coming over the High Street edge. тАЬSomeone at Pureledge finally
answered the phone,тАЭ he announced. тАЬID on the imprint is a six-month
Pureledge rookie named Darcy Flanagan, eighty-seven, resides in a flat at
Seventeen Hoopern Street. He began his shift at three this afternoon and
he and his flight leader belong to 712 Squadron. The Seven-Twelve patrols
the Cathedral Church of St. Peter.тАЭ

тАЬFlight leader? Squadron?тАЭ

тАЬThatтАЩs what they call them. The fellow on the phone said the
scuttlebutt in the ready room at Castle Field is that Jerry got young Darcy.тАЭ

тАЬJerry? What is he talking about? Germans?тАЭ
 тАЬтАШHop in the old crate and tally ho! Chocks away!тАЩ Jaggs, it was like
talking to Fowler in Chicken Run.тАЭ

Fowler, the aged and absurdly militaristic dotty rooster in the old Nick
Park animated featureтАФvoice done by Benjamin WhitrowтАФseemed to think
he was in the Royal Air Force rather than a chicken yard. Every AI, and
particularly every amdroid, knew the classic Chicken Run almost by rote.
Decades ago the beheading-of-Edwina scene on the telly and bio blogs in
combination with the U.S. Supreme CourtтАЩs decision in Grant v. Hudder
helped put the AI Rights Act in Britain over the top. тАЬWhat did he mean,
тАШyoung DarcyтАЩ? You said the fellow was eighty-seven.тАЭ

тАЬAverage age of тАШthe ladsтАЩ is ninety-three,тАЭ countered Shad.

тАЬI see.тАЭ

тАЬLedge marshals maintain continuous sync between bodies and bios,
which would be good for us except they checked what they call their
barracks. Darcy Flanagan the human natural is dead.тАЭ

тАЬPoor fellow. Did they say how?тАЭ

тАЬSudden massive heart attack according to the stasis bed readout.
Too severe for the bed to maintain him and he was past revival by the time
their medical mech reached him. Pureledge has a lot of really old
pensioners as ledge marshals. They make a little cash and for a few hours
a day they get to fly, serve a useful purpose, and feel young and pain free,
according to the fellow on the phone, a Mr. James Duggan. Duggan says
six to eight of the old coves cack out in the barrack racks every year.тАЭ

тАЬHard done by FlanaganтАЩs demise, was he?тАЭ

тАЬThe poor guy could hardly butter his crumpet. Jaggs, the stasis bed
recorded FlanaganтАЩs death at eight minutes to five this evening. The pigeon
bio died eleven seconds later. Unless Flanagan managed to bust up his
own pigeon suit like that, itтАЩs murder. That means media.тАЭ The duck tossed