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

"I needed your encouragement, Fletcher. I've
come back here to make sure you really are going

to see me tomorrow. I remember that when you
showed up tomorrow you'd seen me tiny in your
car."

This was a very strange mixture of tenses. I
thought for a minute, then got the picture. "You
mean you're from the future? You've invented
time travel?"

The little man on the dashboard glowed with
pride. "Time travel's nothing compared to what
I'm going to do. I'm master of space and time,
Fletch."

I fought back a laugh. Dumpy, rope-lipped
Harry, the king of creation? "Do you write that
with capital letters, Harry? Master of Space and
Time?"

"It's not funny. I could kill you right now if I
wanted to. But you're the one who'll give me the
idea to build the blunzer. You have to come see
me tomorrow. I'll be at the shop. Tomorrow we get
the parts, and Sunday night we build the machine."

"I suppose you want money?" I looked around
the car, expecting to spot a holocaster. This had to
be some kind of trick.

"Money? As I recall, you took two thousand out
of your bank account. And you can stop looking
around like that, Fletcher. This is for real. I'm
master of space and time."

"Prove it. Do something weird. Put meтАФput me
in an infinite regress."

"I knew you'd say that. You're so anal, Fletcher.
Too much math. Here, you can light this to get
back out."

The little figure tossed something at me. A tiny
stick of dynamite, bright red and with a wispy

unlit fuse. Something went funny with the time
just then; it was like my time line branched right