"Emil Petaja - The Path Beyond The Stars" - читать интересную книгу автора (Petaja Emil)

had come from; the only clue to his identity was a name tag sewn into his
bootie: Jon Wood. Now he gave Venus Trine an angry stare. тАЬIf you're going
to rehash all thatтАФif you're writing a book or something and you wantтАФтАЭ
тАЬNo, no! Nothing of the sort! What I'm trying to say is that the reason I
couldn't locate you by consulting the stars was that we had nothing to go
on. No birth date. No pinpointing birthplace. As you probably know, to
compute a person's natal chart it's absolutely essentialтАФтАЭ
тАЬI know,тАЭ he growled. тАЬAnd meтАФI'm an enigma. Nobody knows who,
where, when, why. Only thatтАФтАЭ
тАЬOnly that you are obviously a Special.тАЭ
 тАЬSpecial?тАЭ
тАЬYou developed your intuate talent very early. It's said that you were
fascinated with the stars when you were only five or six. You'd stare up into
them for hoursтАФthen suddenly you'd point up and say something incredible
like the green men on тАШthat big yellow starтАЩ were beginning to split into two
pieces and it made you giggle. It was a while before the Antarian
fission-creatures were discovered. Eventually you were snatched out of
college into the starplot star-dowser training school and became their most
efficient star-plotter.тАЭ
It was trueтАФhe did have this special, highly developed intuate. Deep
space was so vast that it would take a man a billion years to cover any
sizable portion of it. The cost in money and manpower, besides the time
itself, made space exploration prohibited until it was discovered that some
human beingsтАФa very fewтАФpossessed a kind of random empathy toward
intelligent life within the stars. Something in their minds touched the minds
of creatures in distant sun systems and, by paraphysical training, this
ability could be developed to uncanny accuracy. He gave her a stern look.
тАЬBut it was pure explainable science, not mumbo-jumbo. When man
desperately needed to travel out into the stars, his complex mind leaped
forward andтАФтАЭ
тАЬWith no outside assistance?тАЭ
тАЬNone! It was done by arduous, pedestrian lab work, and carefully
controlled research into ESP and clairvoyance.тАЭ
Little by little, serious scientists had realized that the human mind
possessed latent powers, which once had been called witchcraft, and that
these intuate powersтАФthe word was coined to include several
specificsтАФwere allied to need. Man had overpopulated his planet, and none
of the planets in his own solar system was habitable. He needed
foodтАФresource. So out of sheer survival need he had forced the discovery of
the time-warp and pushed out into sun systems that would sustain him.
And because the gaps between habitable planets are so incredibly wide,
man developed his latent talents of intuate human-dowsing to point the
way toward such useful worlds, time-jumping the vast distances between.
тАЬWith none of your astrology hocus-pocus!тАЭ Jon added.
The girl's grave look made Jon smile, satisfied. After all, Venus Trine
was the daughter of a great scientist, however peculiar he had become in
his later life; she must have some intelligence. Give him a few months and
Jon would change all her crazy ideas. It was natural that Laurent Trine
would have stuffed her full of his own nonsense, but after all, the basic
intelligence was there. It showed clearly in those gorgeous eyes of hers.