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Название книги: A Fire Upon the Deep
Автор(ы): Vernor Vinge
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Fire-Upon-the-Deep-163656.html
PROLOG
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.A singleton star, reddish and dim. A ragtag of asteroids, and a single planet, more like a moon. In this era the star hung near the galactic plane, just beyond the Beyond. The structures on the surface were gone from normal view, pulverized into regolith across a span of aeons. The treasure was far underground, beneath a network of passages, in a single room filled with black. Information at the quantum density, undamaged. Maybe five billion years had passed since the archive was lost to the nets.The curse of the mummy's tomb, a comic image from mankind's own prehistory, lost before time. They had laughed when they said it, laughed with joy at the treasure… and determined to be cautious just the same. They would live here a year or five, the little company from Straum, the archaeologist programmers, their families and schools. A year or five would be enough to handmake the protocols, to skim the top and identify the
Название книги: A Fire Upon the Deep
Автор(ы): Vernor Vinge
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Fire-Upon-the-Deep-163656.html
PROLOG
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.A singleton star, reddish and dim. A ragtag of asteroids, and a single planet, more like a moon. In this era the star hung near the galactic plane, just beyond the Beyond. The structures on the surface were gone from normal view, pulverized into regolith across a span of aeons. The treasure was far underground, beneath a network of passages, in a single room filled with black. Information at the quantum density, undamaged. Maybe five billion years had passed since the archive was lost to the nets.The curse of the mummy's tomb, a comic image from mankind's own prehistory, lost before time. They had laughed when they said it, laughed with joy at the treasure… and determined to be cautious just the same. They would live here a year or five, the little company from Straum, the archaeologist programmers, their families and schools. A year or five would be enough to handmake the protocols, to skim the top and identify the
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