"Continuing Time - 01 - Emerald Eyes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moran Daniel Keys)

target, but one, or even ten such telepaths, were only mist in the desert of
their need
2048, the year Jerril Carson became the chairman of the Peace Keeping Force
Oversight Committee in the Unification Council, was, not coincidentally, also
the year Suzanne Montignet was removed from control of what was popularly called
Project Superman. In that year forty-three telepathic children were brought to
term. All were given the surname Castanaveras, the technicians had tired of
inventing individual surnames. In 2049 there were seventy-three, and another
eighty-six in the year 2050.
In 2051 the year Trent Castanaveras was born, there were only twenty-four
telepathic children brought into the world. The Peaceforcers were beginning to
learn enough to wonder if they should be afraid of the powers they had helped
create. Many of them were afraid of Carl Castanaveras. With some help from
Castanaveras himself, the assembly-line program to produce telepaths for the
Peaceforcers was terminated by the middle of the year.
In 2052, Darryl Amnier became the Secretary General of the United Nations
In 2053, twins were born to Carl Castanaveras and Jane McConnell, twins named
David and, yes, the Denies who became Denice Ripper, from whom our line
descends.
Those are the facts. There have been many histories written concerning those
twenty years when telepaths first walked the Earth, but historians are primarily
concerned with truth, and a concern for truth can make one leery of those cold
facts that might conflict with a precious, closely held Уtruth.Ф
It is better to be a Storyteller.




EMERALD EYES
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Just better than thirty-two years after Jorge Rodriguez died of radiation burns,
on Wednesday, March 9, 2062, Carl Castanaveras rose early. In cold morning
winds, he left Suzanne MontignetТs home and walked three blocks through the icy
dark, to the Massapequa Park Station of the Long Island Tube-way. It was only
four a.m.; the streets of exurban Massapequa Park were largely bare of traffic.
The stars shone clearly overhead. The moon had already dropped below the
horizon. There were no other pedestrians about. It was silent except for the
rare car and the rumble of the huge twelve-fans rolling down Sunland Boulevard.
The cold did not affect Carl; he barely noticed it except to keep his hands
inside his coat pockets. He walked briskly, more out of impatience than from any
consideration for the temperature.
At the Tube station the doors slid aside and admitted him to a warm, well-lit
waiting room. There wereЧCarl sorted and cataloged by reflexЧeight of them,
three women and five men, waiting for the 4:15 Tube shuttle to Grand Central
Station.
At the InfoNet Aid station Carl bought a one-way ticket to the city, and leased
a news viewer. The clerk behind the counter was having trouble keeping her eyes
open. Lease of the news viewer came to a quarter Credit Unit more than the
ticket itself; the viewers were stolen with some regularity. He paid with