Аннотация
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
The Leagacy of Heorot
Thou must now look to the needs of the nation;
Here dwell I no longer for Destiny calleth me!
Bid thou my warriors after my funeral pyre
Build me a burial-cairn high on the sea-cliff's head;
So that the wayfarers Beowulf's Barrow
Henceforth shall name it.
Thou art the last of all the kindred of Wagmund!
Wyrd has swept all my kin all the brave chiefs away!
Now I must follow them!
Beowulf, King of the Geats
Chapter 1
CAMELOT
They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the nuts work loose.
KIPLING, "The Sons of Martha"
"Cadzie! Wait up!"
Cadmann Weyland chuckled to himself and dug his heels into the slope, slowing his descent.
He politely busied himself, adjusting the rangefinder on his camera. After months on Avalon he still found the shadows too sharp and the sunlight too blue, subtl...
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