Аннотация
Clifford D. Simak
Ring Around the Sun
For Carson
CHAPTER ONE
VICKERS got up at an hour outrageous for its earliness, because Ann had phoned the night before to tell him about a man in New York she wanted him to meet.
He had tried to argue about it.
"I know it breaks into your schedule, Jay," she said "but I don't think this is something you can pass up."
"I can't do it, Ann," he'd told her. "I've got the writing now and I can't get loose."
"But this is big," Ann had said, "the biggest thing that has ever broken. They picked you to talk to first, ahead of all the other writers. They think you're the man to do it."
"Publicity."
"This is not publicity. This is something else."
"Forget it — I won't meet the guy, whoever he is," he had said, and hung up. But here he was, making himself an early breakfast and getting ready to go into New York.
He was frying eggs and bacon and making toast and trying to keep one...
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