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Название книги: The Martian Way and Other Stories
Автор(ы): Isaac Asimov
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Martian-Way-and-Other-Stories-199164.html
The Martian Way
One
From the doorway of the short corridor between the only two rooms in the travel-head of the spaceship, Mario Esteban Rioz watched sourly as Ted Long adjusted the video dials painstakingly. Long tried a touch clockwise, then a touch counter. The picture was lousy.Rioz knew it would stay lousy. They were too far from Earth and at a bad position facing the Sun. But then Long would not be expected to know that. Rioz remained standing in the doorway for an additional moment, head bent to clear the upper lintel, body turned half sidewise to fit the narrow opening. Then he jerked into the galley like a cork popping out of a bottle.“What are you after?” he asked.“I thought I'd get Hilder,” said Long.Rioz propped his rump on the corner of a table shelf. He lifted a conical can of milk from the companion shelf just above his head. Its point popped under pressure. He swirled it gently as he waited for it to warm.“What for?” he said. He upended the cone and
Название книги: The Martian Way and Other Stories
Автор(ы): Isaac Asimov
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Martian-Way-and-Other-Stories-199164.html
The Martian Way
One
From the doorway of the short corridor between the only two rooms in the travel-head of the spaceship, Mario Esteban Rioz watched sourly as Ted Long adjusted the video dials painstakingly. Long tried a touch clockwise, then a touch counter. The picture was lousy.Rioz knew it would stay lousy. They were too far from Earth and at a bad position facing the Sun. But then Long would not be expected to know that. Rioz remained standing in the doorway for an additional moment, head bent to clear the upper lintel, body turned half sidewise to fit the narrow opening. Then he jerked into the galley like a cork popping out of a bottle.“What are you after?” he asked.“I thought I'd get Hilder,” said Long.Rioz propped his rump on the corner of a table shelf. He lifted a conical can of milk from the companion shelf just above his head. Its point popped under pressure. He swirled it gently as he waited for it to warm.“What for?” he said. He upended the cone and
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