"Smith, E E 'Doc' - SubSpace Vol 2 - Subspace Encounter" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith E. E. Doc)

"Same to you, Kitten-or, for any of you others who haven't met this obstreperous young
squirt yet, Daughtanja Aria of Crayme. I'm as happy to see you here, Kitten, as I am
surprised."

She had rushed up to him and had seized one of his hands, at the same time extending a
two-ounce flask cut from one perfect crystal of sapphire. "Whiff?" she asked. "Or do you
still use that corrosive squampf that eats holes through the top of your head and the
soles of both feet all at once."

He laughed. "Rather corrosive than vapid, Aria; I like it to hit bottom." He extended his
flask, which was of simple rose quartz. "Try it again, why don't you."

She shook her head, grinning engagingly. "What you'd better do with that noisome
squampf is pitch it down the cliff where it belongs. Here's cheers'." She clicked flasks
with him, inhaled deeply (from her own flask), and turned to the Spathian. "You're
Knuaire, the Theoretician First, aren't you? I've been studying your monograph on the
application of Grizzon's Criterion to the use of the Chi function in the fifth determinant. . .
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After ten or fifteen minutes more of general mixing and of getting acquainted, Rodnar
called the meeting, which was not really formal, to order and said.
"Since this is our first actual meeting, I propose to go into the situation quite thoroughly.
Most of the material will be familiar to some of you, but much of it will be new to others
of you, particularly to our younger members.- "Mysterious, persistent night
lights-Unidentifiable Flying
Objects-have been reported for many hundreds of years. Skipping the ancient ones,
concerning which we have no reliable information, we know that during the last century
there have been many sightings that no scientist has been able to explain. They can be
explained only by psionics; we psiontists are the only human beings able to perceive
anything in the fourth dimension.

"About seventy years ago, a psiontist found a very high probability of a connection
between two particular sightings and two extremely severe disturbances then thought to
be magnetic storms. Subspace communication had been perfected only a short time
before. Before that, it was hard to tell whether any particular failure was or was not due
to faulty apparatus or technique. As technology improved, however, and interference
increased year by year, it was learned definitely that the increase was due to a certain
type-we still call it Type X-of nonmagnetic storm.

"During the next twenty years, psiontists determined that everyone who sighted a
genuine unidentifiable flying object was, to a greater or less degree, psionic; and three
completely authenticated sightings occurred during three very severe Xtype storms.
Continued study confirmed the conclusion that Type X storms were caused by something
occurring in the fourth dimension.

"Psiontists informed the authorities of their findings; but they were ignored. Nonpsionicists
believed, then as now, that all psionics was fakery, imagination, and crackpotism; that
what actuality, if any, it had was witchcraft and black magic and must be stamped out
wherever and whenever found. However, the terribly disruptive Type X storms continued
to increase and the Council of Science could not even touch the real problem. So, finally,
in sheer desperation, our Grand Justice-Supreme Grand Justice Sonrathendak Ranjak of