"Robyn Tallis - Planet Builders 1 - Mountain of Stolen Dreams" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tallis Robyn)

To the Panama-Texas Connection
With thanks to Bruce Coville, Debra Doyle,

Jim Macdonald, and Sherwood SmithтАФ

who built the planet.

Ivy Books

Published by Ballantine Books

Produced by Butterfield Press, Inc.

133 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10003

Copyright ┬й 1988 by Butterfield Press, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a
division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

All the characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Cover illustration by Bob Eggleton

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 88-91131

ISBN: 0-8041-0201-5

Manufactured in the United States

First Edition: December 1988




CHAPTER ONE:
Sky Ride
Sean Matthews stood at his father's right-hand side, waiting for the elevator that would carry them into
the sky. Because it was morning, and they were facing north, the sixteen-year-old was in the older man's
shadow.

Five minutes dragged by. Sean began tapping his foot but stopped when his father turned to glare at him.

The elevator arrived. Governor Matthews stepped in. Sean followed him. Six other people came behind
them: the official greeting team that would welcome the newest batch of colonists to arrive on Gauguin.

Once inside the elevator, Sean chose to face the clear wall. Most of the adults, however, chose one of
the opaque wallsтАФin order to avoid seeing what was about to happen.