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Название книги: The Many-Coloured Land
Автор(ы): Julian May
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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for Tadeusz Maxim, the noblest of them allMy heart is sore pained within me:and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.Fear and trembling have seized me: and darkness has overwhelmed me.And I said: O that I had wings like a dovel. For then I would fly away and be at restLo, would I flee far away, and live in the wilderness.I would wait for him who will save me from my cowardice and from the storm.psalm 55
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
To confirm that it was indeed near death, the great vessel broke through into normal space with lingering slowness. The pain of the usually swift translation was prolonged as well, until the thousand, for all their strength, cursed and wept within their minds and became convinced that they would be trapped. It would be the gray limbo endlessly. That and pain.But the Ship was doing its best. Sharing the agony of the passengers, it pushed and pried against the tough fabric of the superficies until there were flickers of black against the gray. The Ship and the people f