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Niven Larry

Книга "Bowl of Heaven"

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  1. CONTENTS Cast of Characters Illustration Prologue Part I ...
    1. CONTENTS Cast of Characters Illustration Prologue Part I ...
    2. ...
    3. The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you without Digital Rights Manag...
    4. CAST OF CHARACTERS Cliff Kammash—biologist Mayra Wickramsingh—pilot, with ...
    5. ...
    6. PROLOGUE Here about the beach I wander’d, nourishing a youth subli...
    7. PART I WAKE-UP CALL The possession of knowledge d...
    8. ONE Life persists. He recalled those words, his nervous mantra recited as ...
    9. TWO They told the captain when he came out of cold sleep, bleary-eyed, stiff, st...
    10. THREE Beth Marble felt life coming back into her like a muddy, warm flow. Seeing...
    11. FOUR Beth thrashed and jerked awake. The hammock shuddered. Her legs and arms we...
    12. FIVE They kept wary eyes and instruments on Cupworld while they tended to the au...
    13. SIX If your heart is large, Memor thought, and contains volume enough to envelop...
    14. PART II THE TOUGH GET GOING Man is a small thing,...
    15. SEVEN They left a skeleton crew of five aboard SunSeeker, with Redwing plainly s...
    16. EIGHT She set them down less than two kilometers from the butte wall, on a clutt...
    17. NINE They started the next morning—not that there were any sunrises here. ...
    18. TEN Beth’s team took positions to cover all directions. Tensely they waited and ...
    19. ELEVEN Beth shook herself, trying to keep track of time, at least. She did...
    20. TWELVE They slowed down as their adrenaline high faded. Cliff could feel the ene...
    21. PART III Good judgment comes from experience. Ex...
    22. THIRTEEN A Serf-One brought Memor a delicious skreekor, fragrant with the scent ...
    23. FOURTEEN When Cliff awoke, Irma was sitting next to him, hat tilted, standing wa...
    24. FIFTEEN Memor decided to isolate her prisoners from the vast species richness of...
    25. SIXTEEN Coarse, smelly, wet soil stretched away, embedded in a gray metal mesh. ...
    26. SEVENTEEN They had a long slog through the rumpled hills. That took days. Withou...
    27. EIGHTEEN Lau Pin hefted an eighteen-pound fish, turning it this way and that, in...
    28. NINETEEN A small set of rocky ruins lay downstream. Big stones cemented in place...
    29. PART IV The real voyage of discovery consists no...
    30. TWENTY Tananareve stared at the shambling beast looming over her and made hersel...
    31. TWENTY-ONE The moist heat here felt like it could be cut into cubes and used to ...
    32. TWENTY-TWO The tiny primate learned quickly. Memor had the Serfs bring in a mind...
    33. TWENTY-THREE Beth listened to Tananareve’s summary intently, brows furrowed. Bet...
    34. TWENTY-FOUR Memor was puzzled. Only lowly beasts used divided minds. That was a ...
    35. TWENTY-FIVE The message from Redwing had given them a lift. But the mood faded b...
    36. TWENTY-SIX Never before had Tananareve wished so fervently for blessed night. ...
    37. PART V Nothing in biology makes sense except in ...
    38. TWENTY-SEVEN The Citadel of Remembrance loomed larger than Memor recalled from h...
    39. TWENTY-EIGHT Cliff awoke to feel the ground trembling. Blinking, eyes gritty, he...
    40. TWENTY-NINE Redwing dipped into Meal 47, a pomegranate-rich sauce and artificial...
    41. THIRTY They were rattled. Cliff could see it in their faces. “I wonder,” I...
    42. THIRTY-ONE The hell of it was, Redwing thought, that SunSeeker’s magscoop seemed...
    43. PART VI Action speaks louder than words but not ...
    44. THIRTY-TWO Even Tananareve was keeping up, moving steadily with grim, sweaty det...
    45. THIRTY-THREE “What if we have to leave the forest?” Lau Pin wondered. They reste...
    46. THIRTY-FOUR The sensaround opened in deep space. A tiny knot of yellow whi...
    47. THIRTY-FIVE Six little world-globes ran in a row, three or four meters in diamet...
    48. PART VII You can’t depend on your eyes when your...
    49. THIRTY-SIX “Slow down!” Cliff called out. His stomach wobbled and lurched ...
    50. THIRTY-SEVEN Memor made her clattering ritual steps and buzzing feather-rush dis...
    51. THIRTY-EIGHT When they stopped for a rest after a long journey in the magcar, Cl...
    52. THIRTY-NINE For Cliff, dreams made it all worse. The next “day,” he awoke with t...
    53. FORTY They came down the spire easily, cushioned on magnetic fluxes that Aybe tr...
    54. PART VIII ONE MAN’S MAGIC One man’s “magic” is an...
    55. FORTY-ONE This alien technology had a strange effect on him. Cliff looked at it ...
    56. FORTY-TWO Redwing watched the Bowl’s enormous landscape slide by in the distance...
    57. FORTY-THREE The e-train zoomed on, at speeds Cliff estimated to be at least ten ...
    58. FORTY-FOUR Memor was glad she had not brought her friend, Sarko, for this was a ...
    59. FORTY-FIVE The alien regarded them with its large eyes and made a curious squatt...
    60. PART IX I intend to live forever. So far, so goo...
    61. FORTY-SIX Beth stood in the entrance of the cave and listened as thunder forked ...
    62. FORTY-SEVEN Memor had always enjoyed the serene voyaging these living craft affo...
    63. FORTY-EIGHT Sitting on a riverbank beside lounging aliens, Cliff recalled his fa...
    64. FORTY-NINE The inhabited section of the Bowl, its vast ring-shaped rim, was what...
    65. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We conferred on scientific and literary matters with many helpfu...
    66. FOLK TERMS TransLanguage Long Records Late Invaders Undermind ...
    67. TOR BOOKS BY GREGORY BENFORD Jupiter Project ...
    68. TOR BOOKS BY LARRY NIVEN N-Space De...
    69. ABOUT THE AUTHORS LARRY NIVEN is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning auth...
    70. This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed ...