"Michael Swanwick - Trojan Horse" - читать интересную книгу автора (Swanwick Michael)

away, she thought. This is my mind now.



I am here, and I am always. You have set foot in my country and are dimly aware of my presence.
Later, when you have climbed into the mountains, you will truly know me; and then you will be as I.



Everyone tells me what I'm going to do, Elin thought angrily. Don't I get any say?



The thought that came to her was almost amused: You are only a program caught in a universal web of
programming. You will do as your program dictates. To be free of the programs is to be God.
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Despite her anger, despite her hurt, despite the cold trickle of fear she tried to keep in the background,
Elin was curious. What's it like? she couldn't help asking.



It is golden freedom. The universe is a bubble infinitely large, and we who are God are the film on the
bubble's outside. We interact and we program. We make the stars shine and the willows grow. We
program what you will want far lunch. The programming flows through us, and we alter it and maintain
the universe.



Elin pounced on this last statement. Haven't done a very good job of it, have you?



We do not tamper. When you are one with us, you will understand.



This was, Elin realized, the kind of question-and-answer session Coral must have gone through
repeatedly as part of the Star Maker project. She searched for a question that no one else would have
asked, one that would be hers alone. And after some thought she found it.



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