Аннотация
Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
Chapter 1. Needed
He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.
— Dezhnev Senior1."Pardon me. Do you speak Russian?" said the low voice, definitely contralto, in his ear.
Albert Jonas Morrison stiffened in his seat. The room was darkened and the computer screen on the platform was displaying its graphics with an insistence that had been lost on him.
He must have been more than half-asleep. There had definitely been a man on his right when he sat down. When had that man changed into a woman? Or risen and been replaced?
Morrison cleared his throat and said, "Did you say something, ma'am?" He couldn't make her out clearly in the dim room and the flashing light from the computer screen obscured rather than revealed. He made out dark hair, straight, hugging the skull, covering the ears - no artifice.
She said, "I asked if you spoke Russian."
"Yes, I do. Why do you want to know?"
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