"Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The Room of Lost Souls" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rusch Kristine Kathryn)

The Room of Lost Souls is unique.

No one knows exactly what it is or how it got to be. No one knows
where it started or who built it or why.

Places develop myths, become legends in ways more powerful than
any human being ever can. Because beneath each legendary human is the
reminder that he is human, that what makes him special is how he rose
above his humanness to become a little bit more than the rest of us.

Not a lot more. Just a little bit.

Trekov was a man who had more children than he could count, who
made love to women but apparently didnтАЩt love them. A man who cared
more about his work than his family.

A man like so many others.
 A man who just happened to be the right man for the war he found
himself in.

But the RoomтАФthe Room existed before humans settled this sector.
The Room shows up in the earliest documents from the earliest space
travelers.

And because itтАЩs so old, and because no one knows exactly how it
works or why itтАЩs here or how it came to be, myths grew up around it.

People go on a pilgrimage.

Smart people, like Ewing Trekov.

People believe the Room will do something for them. Change
something about them. Satisfy something within them.

The legends around the Room are fraught with danger. Space
travelers are warned to stay away from it. I remember that much.

IтАЩd heard that much.

But IтАЩm not sure when. Or where. Or from whom.

Still, I need to heed my own advice.

I need to research the thing I think I know the best.

I need to talk to the one other person who remembers it vividly.

I have to talk to my own father.