"John Varley - Red Thunder" - читать интересную книгу автора (Varley John)

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RED THUNDER

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Copyright ┬й 2003 by John Varley.
Text design by Kristin del Rosario.

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First edition: April 2003
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Varley, John, 1947-
Red thunder / John Varley.тАФ1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-441-01015-6 (alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS3572.A724R42003
813тАЩ.54тАФdc21
2002038231

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To Spider Robinson and
Robert A. Heinlein
for the inspiration;
and to Lee, for that,
and everything else.
 Contents
PROLOGUE ....................................................................................................................... 5
PART ONE ......................................................................................................................... 7
1....................................................................................................................................... 8
2..................................................................................................................................... 12
3..................................................................................................................................... 16