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

The latter years of the twentieth century and the early decades of the
twenty-first were marked by changes in weather patterns and
geodynamics.
Accustomed to the reliable round of winter and summer, rainy season and
dry season, the flow of rivers and the currents and tides of the
oceans,
Man had come to look upon the Earth as a stable and dependable home.
He was mistaken.
A trivial shift in air patterns, a minor trembling of the planetary
mantle, a minute increase or diminution of the sun's warmth received by
the planet, and the mighty works of Man crumbled like sand castles in
the
surf.
An example. Earthquakes were more or less expected in certain regions:
the
Pacific Coast of North America, Japan and eastern China, a Eurasian
belt
running from Yugoslavia through Greece and Turkey to Iran. Tragedies
were
masked with heroism, fear hidden behind the false-face of humor. "When
California falls into the ocean this piece of Arizona desert will be
choice waterfront property."
Nobody expected New England and maritime Canada to crumble, but when
the
big quake hit, they did. From the St. Lawrence to the Hudson. It
started
with a tremor and rumble, grew to a scream and smash, ended with a
gurgle
and then the soft, even lapping of the Atlantic's waters.
Among the bits of real estate that wound up on the ocean floor -- a
very
minor bit -- was a chunk of old Providence-Plantations known as Swan
Point
Cemetery. Now the Deep Ones indeed swam over the single stone marker of
the Lovecraft family plot. Winfield, Susan, Howard, the marker was
inscribed. Currents could flow all the way from Devil's Reef and
Innsmouth
Harbor to far Ponape in the Pacific and the Deep Ones visited Swan
Point.
In the field of religion, there was a revival of the ancient cults of
the
sea-gods, especially that of Dagon.

MARCH 15, 2337
Khons slithered through another correction, took up a complex orbit
that
circled one moon, crossed to the other, circled, returned, describing
over
and over the conventional sign for the infinite.
Shoten tapped a plate and the large viewing screen inside Khons glowed