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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html the very size of the habitable body
varied, moved, and shifted, even while Harry watched. He could no longer be
sure which end of this turning object humanity called east and which end west.
He had to trust that somewhere in the
Witch's vast opt-
electronic brain were circuits somehow capable of keeping track.
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It was Harry's job to guide his snip away from the designated and approved
flight paths, while trying not to provoke any nervous reaction by the ground
defenses. While an alert was on, special rules might be in effect or some
routine rules might be relaxed.
Harry's next task, even more difficult, was to nurse the
Witch through
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html the nearly impossible passage back to
the vicinity of Tomb Town.
To simply grope his way along, without the guidance of Bulaboldo's plan, would
have been hopeless. He was going to have to trust the chart worked out by the
insatiable curiosity of little flying robots.
Maracanda seen from this distance in space was not as flat as the
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html habitable region below the clouds.
Instead, the whole body was rather football-shaped. He couldn't see the
expanse of habitable surface, which seemed so flat when he was on it, nor
could he guess just where it might lie.
Harry would have liked to send a little flying probe, like the one
Bulaboldo had used to chart the passage, ahead
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html of the
Witch to mark her way. But he had nothing of the kind available.
Under these strange conditions, a flight of a thousand or two thousand
kilometers, only a few minutes'
quick cruise in ordinary atmosphere, might keep a pilot busy for an hour or
more.
Maneuvering his ship through the small apertures in the various
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html atmospheric layers had to be done with
excruciating care, even if
Bulaboldo had somehow managed to provide him with a kind of guide.
There were places where the ship's movement had to be accomplished in
centimeters rather than meters. Once Harry made a wrong choice, and had to
back the
Witch very slowly out of a tight spot, feeling his
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html way like an elephant performing on a
high wire. Once the ship's flank just brushed the sharply defined, invisible
boundary between zones. Through the pilot's thought-ware, Harry sensed the
tremor of irresponsibility go shivering through programming and hardware
alike. Half a meter more in the wrong direction, and the
Witch
could have gone
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html plunging down, systems cascading into
failure, her engines as well as her optelectronic brain totally disabled.
Minutes passed, the time elapsed since leaving the spaceport dragged out to an
hour. How many more people could ten or twenty berserkers kill in an hour?
But meter by meter, minute by minute, the
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Fred Saberhagen - Berserker's Star.html real habitable surface was creeping
closer. The lowest layer of the sky was breached, and the eerie landscape
where humans worked and fought came into view at last.
Harry swore a heartfelt oath. "Got it. Got it at last." And Lily said: "All
right
!"
Through cleared ports
Harry could watch a broad expanse of the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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