"Rudy Rucker - Master Of Space And Time" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rucker Rudy)

the sound of breaking glass, a curse, some yelling.
The person at the other end knocked the phone
off the counter, then picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Harry! What do you have?" I lowered my voice

so that Nancy wouldn't hear me. "I can spare two
grand, but no more."

"Who's this?" He sounded confused. In the back-
ground the old-woman-voice was still yelling.

"Who's this. Who do you think it is, space cadet?"

"Is this Joe Fletcher?"

"I'm supposed to come tomorrow, right?"

"We're open ten to five on Saturdays."

"I'll come in early and we can have lunch
together. Like real businessmen. Do you have any
circuit diagrams for the thing?"

"You want me to invent something?"

"I thought you already had it. Master of Space
and Time, right?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, Fletch.
Are you drunk?"

This was getting nowhere fast. If the little Har-
rys had been from the future, then maybe he
really didn't know what I was talking about. "You're
going to be master of space and time," I explained.
"I want five million dollars."

"Hold on." There were voices in the background.
"Yes, it's ready, ma'am. Fletcher, I'm going to have
to hang up. Customers. See you tomorrow!"

Serena had climbed onto my lap while I was
talking. She was about as short as you can be and
still walk. I planted a kiss on her fat little cheek.
"You're not really a brat, are you?"

"Dada hand." She starfished her little paw against