" Perry Rhodan 0044 - (36) Man and Monster" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

A sinister psychic force spreads throughout the galaxy. The Mooffs have issued their
ultimatum and, for Perry Rhodan, it spells deadly danger.



Meanwhile, seven hundred members of the New PowerтАЩs crew are critically ill. The Aras,
medical masters of the known universe, must be found.



And the answer to their whereabouts lies in an alien world of 250-million-an-hour hurricanes
and seas of ammoniaтАж




This is the stirring story ofтАУ


MAN AND MONSTER


1/ DESPERATION TITANIC



HORROR confronted the group. Medusa might have turned the menтАЩs faces to stone.

Behind the horrified humans pressed the small ferret-like robots of the Medicorps. Occasionally a clink
was heard as instruments touched instruments which the automatons were programmed to use only in
case of special emergency or major catastrophe. The high-precision specialized machines bore on their
breast and back plates the insignia of the Medical Service. Never failing, never tiring, they were designed
and constructed to help ailing humans. Their thin articulated instrument arms were poised ready for
action, only awaiting the order of the physicians and scientists in charge.

The solemn men peered through a plastisteel partition into the wardroom beyond. An engineer in
Air-Conditioning-Control appeared on the videoscreen. His right hand grasped a switch controlling air
distribution. Over the loudspeaker of the sound system the high whine of live turbines was a constant
hum.

Everything was ready for the decisive moveтАФbut one man could not bring himself to act, could not
make the finalтАФperhaps-fatalтАФcommitment.

Perry Rhodan, First Administrator of the United Peoples of Earth and presently Arkon Expedition
Commander, stretched out both hands against the partition as though to enclose all 700 of his
fate-stricken crew in one all-protective embrace.
In spite of appearances, the sight he witnessed beyond the barrier was neither comical nor intended as a
humorous performance. A normal sense of humour recoils when, one is aware that it is sick and helpless
men who are cavorting as though in the grip of a virulent variant form of St. VitusтАЩ Dance.