Zebrowski, George (ed) - Human-Machines / Зебровски, Джордж (ред) - Люди-Машины [1975, EPUB, ENG]

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Brant Kittinger did not hear the alarm begin to ring. Indeed, it was only after a soft blow had jarred his free-floating observatory that he looked up in sudden awareness from the interferometer. Then the sound of the warning bell reached his consciousness. Brant was an astronomer, not a spaceman, but he knew that the bell could mean nothing but the arrival of another ship in the vicinity. There would be no point in ringing a bell for a meteor—the thing could be through and past you during the first cycle of the clapper. Only an approaching ship would be likely to trip the detector, and it would have to be close. A second dull jolt told him how close it was. The rasp of metal which followed as the other ship slid along the side of his own, drove the fog of tensors completely from his brain. He dropped his pencil and straightened up. . . .