"RR Winterbotham - Specialization" - читать интересную книгу автора (Winterbotham R R)

RIKER SAW Von Shuler rushing into the cage.
"Kathryn!" the man sobbed. He stooped over a still form on the floor.
What Riker saw was not Kathryn, but a small, dead marmoset.
"You said that one of your experiments had lived several years," murmured Riker. "Now I understand. It was Kathryn. She was not your daughter."
"She was my daughter," said Dr. Von Shuler, "a child of my science. The creature there was her mate..."
He pointed to the thing Riker had killed. Already the evolutionary processes were reversing in death. The white savage was becoming a marmoset.
Slowly, Riker turned away. He left the cage and walked through the halls. On all sides were curious forms of life, but none were so bizarre as the scientific animal behind him, who wept over a dead female marmoset.