"Michael Kane - 01 - Warriors Of Mars" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moorcock Michael)

shining steel and plastic cabinet, the great 'trans-
lator cone' directed down at it, and all the other
equipment and instruments that filled the place al-
most to capacity. There were five of us working-
three technicians and Doctor Logon, my chief
assistant.

I checked all the instruments while Logan and
the men worked on the equipment. Soon all the
gauges were reading what they should read, and
we were ready.

I turned to Doctor Logan and looked at him. He
said nothing as he looked back at me. Then we
shook hands. That was all.

I climbed into the machine. They had tried to
talk me out of it earlier but had given up by this
time. Logan reached for the phone and contacted
the team handling the 'receiver'. This was situated
in a lab on the other side of the building.

Logan told the team we were ready and checked
with them. They were ready, too.

Logan walked to the main switch. Through the
little glass panel in the cabinet I saw him switch it
on gravely.

My body began to tingle pleasantly. That was all
at first. It is difficult to describe the weird sensation
I experienced as soon as the transmitter began to
work. It was literally true that every atom of my
body was being torn apartЧand it felt like it. I be-
gan to get light-headed; then came the sensation of

frightful pressures building up inside me, followed
by the feeling that I was exploding outwards.

Everything went green and I felt as though I
was spreading gently in all directions. Then came a
riot of colors blossoming around meЧreds, yellows,
purples, blues.

There was an increasing sense of weightless-
nessЧmasslessness even. I felt I was streaming
through blackness and my mind began to blank out
altogether. I felt I was hurtling over vast distances,
beyond time and spaceЧcovering an incredible
area of the universe in every direction in a few sec-