" Perry Rhodan 0028 - (21) The Cosmic Decoy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

тАжAnd the hotspot is Venus.

Perry and the fugitive Arkonide woman, Thora, are on the planet of peril, a hot-house of horror,
menaced not only by the unnatural monstrosities of the natural Venusian habitat but by deadly invaders
from Earth. And the positronic brain, not programmed for certain unforeseen emergencies, has sealed off
the planet!

An impenetrable envelope surrounds Venus!

Can Reginald Bell penetrate the barrier via the 5th dimension? If not, Rhodan must rely on his own
resources to protect himself from man and monster alike, else perish in a primeval jungle far from his
Mother World.



This is the stirring story ofтАУ


THE COSMIC DECOY


1/ A Shadow Without Substance



THE MOON was his doom and he was racing toward it at an angle of 45┬░ and a speed of 6000 miles a
second .

He was cadet Julian Tifflor of the Space Academy.

Theycalled such wild, seemingly insane manoeuvres "tactical training."They were so reckless that they
made even the experienced pilots of the Space Force Commandos sweat.

Theydemanded all or nothing. They were, in a way, merciless, but when it was all over they became
wonderful friends with a ready smile on their lips.

Theywere the training instructors of the Space AcademyтАФthe men who already many times before had
left the Solar system in the service of the New Power to protect mankind far out in cosmic space.

They never indulged in sentimental feelings when it came to making men in their own image out of raw
recruits. The New PowerтАЩs astronauts had to be the best.

Cadet Julian Tifflor had matter-of-factly been given the order to take command of a fast spaceship
destroyer as part of his final exam.

For the purposes of his test he was instructed to consider the towering peak of a rugged Lunar mountain
as a "hostile unit of a battlecruiser" which he was unable to evade due to his own excessive momentum.
In the course of the orderтАЩs execution it was left solely up to him whether to miss the rocky cliffs by a
hair on his flight or to deceive himself with the wishful thought that the massive obstacle would somehow
miraculously turn into a soft cloud.