Аннотация
Larry Niven
Destiny's Road
1
The Caravan
We have experience of the earlier interstellar colony, Camelot. Considerable information reached Earth from Camelot, describing both mistakes and success, before communication stopped. Destiny is our second try. Destiny ~ succeed.
-Naren Singh,
Secretary-General,
United Nations, 2427 A.D.
2722 AD., Spiral Town
Junior at fourteen had grown tall enough to reach the highest cupboard. She stretched up on tiptoe, found the speckles shaker by feel, and brought it down. Then she saw what was happening to the bacon. She shouted, "Jemjemjemmv!"
Jemmy's eleven-year-old mind was all in the world beyond the window.
Junior snatched up a pot holder and moved the pan off the burner. The bacon wasn't burned, not yet. not quite.
Sorry," Jemmy said without turning. 'Junior, there's a caravan coming."
'You never saw a caravan." Junior looked through the long window, northeastward "Dus...
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