McAuley, Paul J. / Макоули, Пол Дж. - Собрание сочинений (113 произведений) [1984-2022, fb2/epub, ENG]

Red Dust 1993, epub Pasquale's Angel / Ангел Паскуале 2009, epub, ISBN: 978-0-575-08659-3, Gollancz Fairyland 2007, epub, ISBN: 978-0-575-08110-9, Gollancz The Secret of Life 2001, epub, ISBN: 0-765-30080-X, Tor Whole Wide World / Паутина 2002, epub, ISBN: 0-00-651331-X, Voyager The Eye of the Tyger 2003, fb2, ISBN: 1-903889-24-3, Telos Publishing Mind's Eye 2005, fb2, ISBN: 0-7432-3888-5, Simon & Schuster UK Cowboy Angels 2009, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-575-08706-4, Gollancz / Orion Austral 2017, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4732-1733-1, Gollancz War of the Maps 2020, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4732-1736-2, Gollancz Beyond the Burn Line 2022, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-399-60373-7, Gollancz

A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985 - 2011 2016, epub, Paul McAuley

Wagon, Passing 1984, fb2 Little Ilya and Spider and Box 1985, fb2 The Airs of Earth 1986, fb2 Among the Stones 1987, fb2 The Temporary King 1987, fb2 The Heirs of Earth 1987, fb2 Karl and the Ogre 1988, fb2 Inheritance 1988, fb2 Transcendence 1988, fb2 Jacob's Rock 1989, fb2 How We Lost the Moon, a True Story by Frank W. Allen 1990, fb2 Exiles 1990, fb2 Crossroads (= Cross Roads Blues) 1991, fb2 The Invisible Country 1991, fb2 Gene Wars / Генные войны 1991, fb2 Prison Dreams 1992, fb2 Dr. Luther's Assistant 1993, fb2 The Temptation of Dr Stein / Искушение доктора Штайна 1994, fb2 The True History of Doctor Pretorius 1995, fb2 The Worst Place in the World / Худшее место на земле 1997, fb2 Back Door Man 1997, fb2 Residuals 1997, fb2 (with Kim Newman) 17 1998, fb2 I Spy 1999, fb2 Naming the Dead / Перечисли мёртвых 1999, fb2 Straight to Hell / Прямиком в ад 2000, fb2 Danger - Hard Hack Area 2000, fb2 The Rift 2000, fb2 A Very British History / Очень британская история 2000, fb2 Interstitial 2000, fb2 Bone Orchards 2000, fb2 The Two Dicks / Вспышки 2001, fb2 Doctor Pretorius and the Lost Temple 2002, fb2 The Madness of Crowds 2003, fb2 Child of the Stones 2003, fb2 Take Me to the River 2005, fb2 Rats of the System / Крысы 2005, fb2 Meat 2005, fb2 Rocket Boy 2007, fb2 Prisoners of the Action 2008, fb2 Little Lost Robot 2008, fb2 A Brief Guide to Other Histories 2008, fb2 The Thought War / Невидимая война 2008, fb2 Penance 2009, fb2 Antarctica Starts Here 2012, fb2 Transitional Forms 2013, fb2 Planet of Fear / Планета Страха 2015, fb2 Wild Honey 2015, fb2 The Fixer 2016, fb2 Elves of Antarctica 2016, fb2 Nothing Ever Happens on Oberon 2018, fb2

1. CAMP ZERO

They took away Dorthy Yoshida’s clothes and gave her a cut-down gee-suit, doped her and fitted her into a dropcapsule, flooded it with impact gel and sealed the hatch. And then they shot her ass-backward out of orbit. For a long minute she was falling free. Oxygen hissed in her facemask and meaningless indicator lights blinked centimetres from her face through the distorting gel, but it all seemed like something she was watching on a trivia show. She knew that her detachment came from the tranquillizer, but that didn’t matter either. She was floating beyond it all. And it was good to be alone at last. Despite her implant, she had never been entirely free of the emotions of the crew and other passengers in the ship’s cramped quarters, forever colouring her thoughts and seeping into her dreams like bad gas. A not-inconsiderable reason why she had wanted to become an astronomer at the end of her contract with the Kamali-Silver Institute had been the opportunity it afforded for escape from the seething energies of civilization, the storms of emotion that broke upon her day after day, eroding her resources as steadily as the sea erodes the land. The weeks in transit had been as exhausting as a year in any city. So the minute of freefall was a drop of nirvana: salt crystal or snowflake, she dissolved in it. Then the retrojets cut in. The impact gel gloved the length of her body…and relaxed. For a moment she was weightless again. . . .

PART ONE Another Country

1 Ghosts of Godlings

A lone tree leaned over the cistern, its bell-shaped yellow-leaved canopy dinting and swaying in the hot breeze, sprinkling coins of mirrorlight across the water and the effigy of a toad, carved from a knot of bonewhite wood, which crouched on a slab of rock at the water’s edge. The lucidor picked up the stoneware beaker set between the toad’s long-toed feet, left by some unknown traveller and used by many such since, and dipped it in the cistern and drank the measure of cool water straight down and refilled it and sat back on his heels. Sipping slowly, wondering if the toad was the avatar of a godling or the spirit animal of one of the vagrant tribes that wandered the borderlands, wondering if the bandits knew about the little oasis. Most likely they did. This was their territory and he was a stranger here, passing through on his way to somewhere else. A school of desert minnows patrolled the cistern’s square perimeter, flickering beneath the fleet of narrow inturned leaves adrift on the skin of the water, turning about the current of the spring that pulsed from a crack beneath the deity of their little map, scattering when the lucidor stood and unhooked the fighting staff slung slantwise at his back and shrugged off his black leather coat. The right side of his face darkly blushed, as if he had sat too long by a fire, his long grey hair, brushed back from his forehead and gathered into a coil pinned by a barrette, was scored by a crisp charcoal streak that ran above his ear, and the left sleeve of his shirt had been ripped off and tied around his upper arm. He used his teeth and right hand to undo the knot of this makeshift bandage and drops of fresh blood welled and ran when he peeled the cloth from the raw trough gouged in his biceps. . . .

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