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Название книги: Time’s Eye
Автор(ы): Arthur Clarke
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Time_s-Eye-161052.html
Authors’ Note
This book, and the series that it opens, neither follows nor precedes the books of the earlier Odyssey, but is at right angles to them: not a sequel or prequel, but an “orthoquel,” taking similar premises in a different direction.The quotation from Rudyard Kipling’s “Cities and Thrones and Powers,” from Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906), is used by kind permission of AP Watt Ltd., on behalf of the National Trust for Places of Historical Interest or Natural Beauty.Cities and Thrones and PowersStand in Time’s eye,Almost as long as flowers,Which daily die:But, as new buds put forthTo glad new men,Out of the spent and unconsidered EarthThe Cities rise again.—Rudyard Kipling
Time’s Eye
Part 1Discontinuity
1. Seeker
For thirty million years the planet had cooled and dried, until, in the north, ice sheets gouged at the continents. The belt of forest that had once stretched across Africa and Eurasia, nearly continuous from the Atlantic coast to the Far East, had broken into dwindling pockets. The creatures who
Название книги: Time’s Eye
Автор(ы): Arthur Clarke
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Time_s-Eye-161052.html
Authors’ Note
This book, and the series that it opens, neither follows nor precedes the books of the earlier Odyssey, but is at right angles to them: not a sequel or prequel, but an “orthoquel,” taking similar premises in a different direction.The quotation from Rudyard Kipling’s “Cities and Thrones and Powers,” from Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906), is used by kind permission of AP Watt Ltd., on behalf of the National Trust for Places of Historical Interest or Natural Beauty.Cities and Thrones and PowersStand in Time’s eye,Almost as long as flowers,Which daily die:But, as new buds put forthTo glad new men,Out of the spent and unconsidered EarthThe Cities rise again.—Rudyard Kipling
Time’s Eye
Part 1Discontinuity
1. Seeker
For thirty million years the planet had cooled and dried, until, in the north, ice sheets gouged at the continents. The belt of forest that had once stretched across Africa and Eurasia, nearly continuous from the Atlantic coast to the Far East, had broken into dwindling pockets. The creatures who
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