Аннотация
Piers Anthony, Philip Jose Farmer
THE CATERPILLARS QUESTION
"Who are you?" the Caterpillar said "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see." -Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
THEY had told Jack they thought it was psychosomatic. She could talk if she wanted to, and might even recover the sight of one eye. But it had taken seven years to obtain the grant from the foundation, and now she was thirteen.
He glanced at her, sitting tight and stiff in the passenger bucket.
Her dark hair was cut so short it was boyish, but the gentle bulges in the heavy man's shirt she wore belied any boyhood or childhood. One hand toyed indifferently with the buckle of the seat belt, and under her cotton skirt the shiny length of a metal brace paralleled her left leg. Her sharp chin pointed forward, but of course she was not watching anything.
The horn of the car behind him blared as the light changed. Jack shifted and edged o...
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