"Woods, Laurence - The Colossus Of Maia" - читать интересную книгу автора (Woods Laurence)

"`The horizon is so close here I am always afraid of falling off. I am going to
end it all tonight when Earth comes out--I shall run across the desert and leap
with all my might. My body will take an orbit that someday will bring it within
that of Mars. Perhaps someday a space ship will find me; then maybe they will
take me home. I would rather die on Earth than live on Maia any longer.' It was
signed David Lyman.
"Rockwell and Burton follow the footprints across the desert, the prints of bare
soles nine feet long. Soon they see where the prints become farther and farther
apart, as if the maker had been running and bounding. Then, finally, they come
to the last set; deep down they are dug, and much dirt is thrown back as if a
tremendous being had made one vast terrific leap there. A leap out into the
realm of the airless void-- a leap," and here Boyer's voice caught a little,
"that would bring a son of Earth back to his native home."



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