"Kim Stanley Robinson - Forty Signs of Rain" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robinson Kim Stanley)

there as scientific advisor. Or consultant, given his UCSD position. And if they had Pierzinski under
contract, things might work out. By the end of the year the whole Torrey Pines situation might be turned
around. And if it all worked out, the potential was there for it to do very well indeed.



Frank wandered down to LeoтАЩs lab. It was noticeably lively compared to the rest of the
buildingтАФpeople bustling about, the smell of solvents in the air, machines whirring away. Where thereтАЩs
life thereтАЩs hope. Or perhaps they were only like the musicians on theTitanic, playing on while the ship
went down.

This, however, represented an attempt to bail the ship out. Frank felt encouraged. He went in and
exchanged pleasantries with Leo and his people, feeling that it was easy to be friendly and encouraging.
This was the guts of the machine, after all. He mentioned that Derek had sent him down to talk about
their current situation, and Leo nodded noncommittally and gave him a rundown, truncated but functional.

Frank regarded him as he spoke, thinking: Here is a scientist at work in a lab. He is in the optimal
scientific space. He has a lab, he has a problem, heтАЩs fully absorbed and going full tilt. He should be
happy. But he isnтАЩt happy. He has a tough problem heтАЩs trying to solve, but thatтАЩs not it; people always
have tough problems in the lab.

It was something else. Probably, that he was aware of the companyтАЩs situationтАФof course, he had to
be. Probably this was the source of his unease. The musicians feeling the tilt in the deck. In which case
there really was a kind of heroism in the way they played on, focused to the end.

But for some reason Frank was also faintly annoyed by this. People plugging away in the same old ways,
trying to do things according to the plan, even a flawed plan: normal science, in Kuhnian terms, as well as
in the more ordinary sense. All so normal, so trusting that the system worked, when obviously the system
was both rigged and broken. How could they persevere? How could they be so blinkered, so
determined, so dense?

Frank slipped his content in. тАЬMaybe if you had a way to test the genes in computer simulations, find
your proteins in advance.тАЭ

Leo looked puzzled. тАЬYouтАЩd have to have a, what. A theory of how DNA codes its gene expression
functions. At the least.тАЭ

тАЬYes.тАЭ

тАЬThat would be nice, but IтАЩm not aware anyone has that.тАЭ

тАЬNo, but if you didтАжWasnтАЩt George working on something like that, or one of his temporary guys?
Pierzinski?тАЭ

тАЬYeah thatтАЩs right, Yann was trying some really interesting things. But he left.тАЭ

тАЬI think Derek is trying to bring him back.тАЭ

тАЬGood idea.тАЭ