Аннотация
Lawrence Watt-Evans
Nightside City
Dedicated to
Dr. Sheridan Simon,
who designed Epimetheus and the Eta Cass system to
my specifications -
and also dedicated to the memories of
Jim Morrison
and Humphrey Bogart
Chapter One
THE CITY OUTSIDE MY WINDOW WAS A CACOPHONY OF neon and Stardust, a maze of blinding glitter and flash, and from where I sat it was all meaningless, no discrete images at all-nothing discrete, and certainly no discretion. I knew that the casino ads were shimmying and singing like sirens, luring passersby onto the rocks of the roulette wheels and randomizers, sucking them in with erotic promises of riches, but all that reached me through the window was a tangle of colored light and a distant hum, punctuated every so often by the buzz and blink of a macroscopic floater passing nearby. Even the big ships landing or lifting didn't bother me-the window was angled so I couldn't see them unless they buzzed the Tra...
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