"Richard A." - читать интересную книгу автора (Lupoff Richard A)

"Or perhaps," purred Shoten, "perhaps our system is a failed triple
star.
Ah, think of the show if we had three suns to light our worlds instead
of
one!"
Again Shoten Binayakya flicked at a pressure plate. Once more Khons
shifted, jounced. There was a steady acceleration and the ship slid
from
its orbit around the ruddy, pulsating planet, fell away from Yuggoth
and
toward the spinning worldlets that occupied the central orbit around
the
planet.
"They must be," Gomati crooned softly, "they must be. Thog and Thok,
Thog
and Thok. How could he know, centuries past? Let some Curwen find the
salts and let him tell!"
"You're babbling again!" Njord almost shouted. "I thought we were
selected
for stability for this mission. How did you ever get past the
screening?"
Distracted, Sri Gomati slowly dragged her fascinated gaze from the
spinning moons, turned silver eyes toward Njord Freyr.
"Somehow he knew," she mumbled. Her lips drew back in a slow smile,
showing her bright steel monodonts. "And somehow we will find the
Ghooric
zone where the fungi blossom!"
As if in a trance she turned slowly away, leaned forward, eyes
glittering
metallically, leaned and reached her hands, the cyborged and the
 genetically custom-formed, as if to touch the two red-gray worldlets.
"He wrote horror stories," Gomati said, her voice dead-level as if
trance-ridden. "He wrote of an unknown outer planet that he called
Yuggoth, and of others -- Nithon, Zaman, Thog and Thok -- and of
horrid,
puffy beasts called shoggoths that splashed obscenely in the pools of
the
Ghooric zone.
"He died four hundred years ago today, Howard did. But first he wrote
of
one Curwen who could restore the dead if only he could obtain their
essential salts. What he called their essential salts." She paused and
giggled. "Maybe he had a prevision of cloning!"

MAR 15, 2037 -- A VIDEOTAPE
Open with a logo recognizable as representing world politics.
The old century ended with a definite shift of world power. The
westward
movement of two millennia continued. Mesopotamia, Hellas, Italia,
Franco-Germania, England, America. Now the power in America shifted