"Cordwainer Smith - Norstrilia - 01 - The Planet Buyer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith Cordwainer)
"That's the book, boy.
"If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen Norstrilia. If you did see it, you wouldn't believe it. If you got there, you wouldn't get off alive.
"Mother Hilton's littul kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber.
"Charts call the place Old North Australia."
We can suppose that that is what it is like.
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Time: first century of the Rediscovery of Man.
When C'mell lived.
About the time they polished off Shayol, like wiping an apple on the sleeve.
Long deep into our own time. Fifteen thousand years after the bombs went up and the boom came down on Old, Old Earth.
Recent, see?
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What happens in the story?
Read it.
Who's there?
It starts with Rod McBanЧwho had the real name of Roderick Frederick Ronald Arnold William MacArthur McBan. But you can't tell a story if you call the main person by a name as long as Roderick Frederick Ronald Arnold William MacArthur McBan. You have to do what his neighbors didЧcall him Rod McBan. The old ladies always said, "Rod McBan the hundred and fifty-firstЕ" and then sighed. Flurp a squirt at them, friends. We don't need numbers. We know his family was distinguished. We know the poor kid was born to troubles.
Why shouldn't he have troubles?
He was born to inherit the Station of Doom.
He almost failed the Garden of Death.
The Onseck was after him.
His father had died out in the dirty part of space, where people never find nice clean deaths.
When he got in trouble, he trusted his computer.
The computer gambled, and it won Earth.
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