"Larry Niven & Steve Barnes - The California Voodoo Game" - читать интересную книгу автора (Niven Larry)

"Oh, Lord. How long?"

"Give me an hour. If everything checks, you can have it all back. The damn
Game is done, isn't it?"

Tony bit back a retort: No Garne is ever complete while the authors live,
Alex. He stood up, and Alex slid into his chair.

Dream Park's security chief was at work almost instantly. He had a running
view of the train depot on levels one and two. Then the Mall on level three.
The Mall extended up to level six, with another two stories of light-well.
Escalators
ran from there down to the train gates. The gates had been there already,
but with only one set of track laid, a split-level station carved into the
ground and the cliff face.

"How much of this did you actually build?" Sharon asked.

Griffin didn't seem inclined to answer, so Tony said, "We cleaned out the
broken glass and planted merchandise in the stores, and bombed out the
stinks and the vermin. Otherwise we left it alone. There're some clues in
the MallтАФ"

"What about the rest of the building?"

"Ah. Well, most of it was in place. MIMIC had eleven thousand in residence,
and was going slowly broke, on May twenty-third, nineteen ninety-five."
"The California Ouake," said Sharon.

"Yep. You can see for yourself, the place wasn't totaled. California's always
been antsy about quakeproofing. MIMIC stood up pretty well. Part of the
west face is sagging. See how it's distorted, like someone slammed the
oven door on the souffle? Maybe two thousand people were trapped.
Rescue was a long time coming, because the whole damn state needed
rescue. Over eight hundred died. The building wasn't a total loss, but who'd
want to live here after that? Cowles stole it at auction. Hell, everything in
California was going for nickels.''

The scanner's eye shifted just north of the vertical ridge on the west face,
to focus on the waterfall. The western edge of the rooftop lake cascaded
over the broken masonry in a silvery flood. The viewpoint moved down the
torrent in jumps.

"When we finish, we'll turn this back into industry housing. Home base for
the Barsoom Project. But first, we get to play with it. We'll run the
California Voodoo Game from roof to basement, the biggest role-playing
game ever.

"We flooded levels ten and eleven, Sharon. There'll be more flooding by the