Аннотация
Rudy Rucker
Master Of Space And Time
1. This Is the Name of This Chapter
My screen began flashing. I had the console rigged to measure quitting time to the nanosecond. Softech had a flexitime system, which meant that you could quit for the week after putting in forty hours. A few quick keypunches and I'd logged off for the weekend. I yawned and looked around the too-familiar room. I was pretty old to be working this hard. A couple of years ago I'd had it made — my own company and my own signature on the paychecks. But now …
"Finished so soon, Dr. Fletcher?"
It was my supervisor, an angular young blond woman named Susan Lacey. Dr. Lacey. No one used first names at Softech. Company policy.
"No, I'm not finished. But I've clocked in my forty hours. It's Friday afternoon."
She flashed her human-relations smile. "It's two forty-seven, Dr. Fletcher. I don't have to tell you that they're in an awful rush for your program. You know how anxious they...
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