Аннотация
Bruce Sterling
Crystal Express
We cannot separate the historic accidents of the society in which we were born from the axiomatic bases of the universe.
--J. D. Bernal, 1925
The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.
--Wm. Gibson, 1988
SWARM
First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1982.
"I will miss your conversation during the rest of the voyage," the alien said.
Captain-Doctor Simon Afriel folded his jeweled hands over his gold-embroidered waistcoat. "I regret it also, ensign," he said in the alien's own hissing language. "Our talks together have been very useful to me, I would have paid to learn so much, but you gave it freely."
"But that was only information," the alien said. He shrouded his bead-bright eyes behind thick nictitating membranes. "We Investors deal in energy, and precious metals. To prize and pursue mere knowledge is an immature racial trait." The alien lifted the long ...
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