Аннотация
Bruce Sterling
Luciferase
His flesh lit up with erotic need.
The urge within him was beyond comprehension. It was cosmic: its own pure justification.
Light shocked out of him in a tumbling chemical rush.
Someone smashed into him with a violent scrabble of claws. He lost his grip on the grass stem and fell spinning into the dirt. He lay there stunned, legs folded tightly across his belly.
His assailant plummeted after him from the twilight sky. It was Peck, a spider. Peck hit the rotting leaf litter and rebounded on powerful legs. He spun his spiny carcass, his domed eyes searching for prey like a set of black periscopes.
"Peck, it's me. It's Vinnie." Wisely, Vinnie stifled his tremendous urge to flash. Peck would attack anything that lit his eight black eyes.
"I need to eat you right now," Peck said reasonably.
"Peck, you can't eat me, okay? Fireflies are poisonous."
Peck had molted since the last time their paths had cross...
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