"Jerry Sohl - I, Aleppo" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sohl Jerry)

"Congratulations," Ralph said as he, Sam and Casimir removed the rest
of the equipment.

Gary sighed with weariness as he got off the table. They had been trying
for months to shunt one of the dream creatures into the colloid
entrapment unit without result; they'd all had their innings, and he, Gary
Carmody, had been the dreamer when first contact had been made.

First contact! He had to laugh at himself. How worried he'd been about
his dream and how it might turn out. He hadn't thought he'd be the one
whose dream would be in any way unusual. In his dream someone had
winced and then become angry in a strange, un-dreamlike way. The whole
thing, the whole dream, was still real to him and he felt submerged in it.

It was Dr. Max Easton's theory that one of the dream figures could be
captured. When Gary'd first heard about Easton and the theory, he'd
thought it was preposterous, but the more he talked with Easton and the
others, the more he became convinced Easton's theory was not only a good
one but that capturing a dream being was possible. He remembered how
ridiculous theories about the telephone, radio and television had once
seemed to people before they were realized; now they were an integral part
of everyday life. So it would be with Easton's theory. There was something
to dreams besides just the dreaming of them. He was sure of it.

With Kate's arm around him to steady him Gary stood up. He hadn't
realized how much a lab dream would take out of him, and he couldn't
seem to forget the look on the girl's face in the dream; she'd blanched for
no apparent reason. Why had she reacted so to what the team was trying
to do? And why had the hooded creature come running the way he had?

"Still with it, huh?" Kate said.

"Yeah. Still can't figure it out. It was so real.тАж"

"I know, and some day we're going to get one of those creatures
transferred to the lab where we can take a good, long look at him. Or her."
She grew solemn. "They've done enough to us in our dreams. Now it's
going to be our turn to find out how and why."

Max came over to them. "How do you feel?" They all moved to the
after-bench where Gary began to wash off the paste that had held some of
the monitoring devices to his body.

"Pretty good," Gary said.

Max smiled. "We all feel strange the first time, but you have reason to
feel even stranger. Yours was a special experience because of the girl's
reaction." He put a hand on Gary's shoulder. "Getting one of them into the
entrapment tank here is going to happen sooner than any of us dared
hope, thanks to you."