Larry Niven / Ларри Нивен - Собрание сочинений (248 произведений) [1965-2021, FB2/EPUB, ENG]

The Flying Sorcerers / Летающие колдуны 1971, fb2; 2004, epub, ISBN: 1-932100-23-7, BenBella Books (with David Gerrold) Lucifer's Hammer / Молот Люцифера 1977, fb2; 1983, epub, ISBN: 0-449-20813-3, Fawcett Crest / Ballantine (with Jerry Pournelle) The Patchwork Girl / Кукла из лоскутов 1980, epub, ISBN: 0-441-65315-4, Ace Books (Jerry eBooks) Oath of Fealty / Клятва верности 1981, fb2; 2016, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61242-298-5, Phoenix Pick (with Jerry Pournelle) The Descent of Anansi / Нисхождение Ананси 1982, (with Steven Barnes) Footfall / Поступь 1985, fb2 (with Jerry Pournelle) Achilles' Choice / Выбор Ахиллеса 1991, fb2 (with Steven Barnes) Fallen Angels / Падшие ангелы 1991, fb2 (with Michael F. Flynn and Jerry Pournelle) Destiny's Road / Дорога судьбы 1997, fb2 Saturn's Race / Гонка с Сатурном 2000, fb2 (with Steven Barnes) Building Harlequin's Moon / Создание луны Арлекина 2005, fb2 (with Brenda Cooper) The Goliath Stone 2013, epub, ISBN: 9781429960717, Tor (with Matthew Joseph Harrington) The Seascape Tattoo 2016, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4668-6335-4, Tor (with Steven Barnes)

All The Myriad Ways / Мириады путей 1971, fb2 A Hole In Space / Дыра в космосе 1974, fb2 Convergent Series / Сходящиеся последовательности 1979, fb2 Playgrounds Of The Mind / Место для игр разума 1991, fb2; epub, ISBN: 0-312-85219-3, Tor Limits / Пределы 1985, fb2 N-Space / Н-пространство 1990, epub, ISBN: 0-312-85089-1, Tor Scatterbrain / Вертопрах 2003, fb2; 2003, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4299-1405-5, Tor Stars and Gods 2010, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4299-9041-7, Tor Red Tide 2014, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61242-133-9, Phoenix Pick Known Tales: The Nearly Complete Short Fiction 1964 To 2019 2021, epub, Jerry eBooks

No Exit / Выхода нет 1971, fb2 (with Jean Marie Stine) In the Cellar / В подвале 1979, fb2 The Color of Sunfire / Цвет солнечного пламени 1993, fb2 The Trellis / Решётка 2003, fb2 (with Brenda Cooper) Kath and Quicksilver / Кэт и Ртуть 2005, fb2 (with Brenda Cooper) Passing Perry Crater Base, Time Uncertain / Минуя базу кратера Перри, время - неизвестно 2009, fb2

In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality. His foot-length queue was as white and shiny as artificial snow. His skin and depilated scalp were chrome yellow; the irises of his eyes were gold; his robe was royal blue with a golden steroptic dragon superimposed. In the instant he appeared, he was smiling widely, showing pearly, perfect, perfectly standard teeth. Smiling and waving. But the smile was already fading, and in a moment it was gone, and the sag of his face was like a rubber mask melting. Louis Wu showed his age. For a few moments, he watched Beirut stream past him: the people flickering into the booths from unknown places; the crowds flowing past him on foot, now that the slidewalks had been turned off for the night. Then the clocks began to strike twenty-three. Louis Wu straightened his shoulders and stepped out to join the world. In Resht, where his party was still going full blast, it was already the morning after his birthday. Here in Beirut it was an hour earlier. In a balmy outdoor restaurant Louis bought rounds of raki and encouraged the singing of songs in Arabic and Interworld. He left before midnight for Budapest. Had they realized yet that he had walked out on his own party? They would assume that a woman had gone with him, that he would be back in a couple of hours. But Louis Wu had gone alone, jumping ahead of the midnight line, hotly pursued by the new day. Twenty-four hours was not long enough for a man's two hundredth birthday. They could get along without him. Louis's friends could take care of themselves. In this respect, Louis's standards were inflexible. In Budapest were wine and athletic dances, natives who tolerated him as a tourist with money, tourists who thought he was a wealthy native. He danced the dances and he drank the wines, and he left before midnight. In Munich he walked. The air was warm and clean; it cleared some of the fumes from his head. He walked the brightly lighted slidewalks, adding his own pace to their ten-miles-per-hour speed. It occurred to him then that every city in the world had slidewalks, and that they all moved at ten miles per hour. The thought was intolerable. Not new; just intolerable. Louis Wu saw how thoroughly Munich resembled Cairo and Resht … and San Francisco and Topeka and London and Amsterdam. The stores along the slidewalks sold the same products in all the cities of the world. These citizens who passed him tonight looked all alike, dressed all allke. Not Americans or Germans or Egyptlans, but mere flatlanders. In three-and-a-half centuries the transfer booths had done this to the infinite variety of Earth. They covered the world in a net of instantaneous travel. The difference between Moskva and Sidney was a moment of time and a tenth-star coin. Inevitably the cities had blended over the centuries, until placenames were only relics of the past. San Francisco and San Diego were the northern and southern ends of one sprawling coastal city. But how many people knew which end was which? Tanj few, these days. Pessimistic thinking, for a man's two hundredth birthday. But the blending of the cities was real. Louis had watched it happen. All the irrationalities of place and time and custom, blending into one big rationality of City, worldwide, like a dull gray paste. Did anyone today speak Deutsche, English, Francais, Espanol? Everyone spoke Interworld. Style in body paints changed all at once, all over the world, in one monstrous surge. Time for another sabbatical? Into the unknown, alone in a singleship, with his skin and eyes and hair their own color, a beard growing randomly over his face … "Nuts," said Louis to himself. "I just got back from a sabbatical." Twenty years ago. But it was wearing on toward midnight. Louis Wu found a transfer booth, inserted his credit card in the slot and dialed for Sevilla. He emerged in a sunlit room. "What the tanj?" he wondered, blinking. The transfer booth must have blown its zap. In Sevilla there should have been no sunlight. Louis Wu turned to dial again, then turned back and stared. He was in a thoroughly anonymous hotel room: a setting prosaic enough to make its occupant doubly shocking. Facing him from the middle of the room was something neither human nor humanoid. It stood on three legs, and it regarded Louis Wu from two directions, from two flat heads mounted on flexible, slender necks. Over most of its startling frame, the skin was white and glovesoft; but a thick, coarse brown mane ran from between the beasts necks, back along its spine, to cover the complex-looking hip joint of the hind leg. The two forelegs were set wide apart, so that the beast's small, clawed hooves formed almost an equilateral triangle. Louis guessed that the thing was an alien animal. In those flat heads there would be no room for brains. But he noticed the hump that rose between the bases of the necks, where the mane became a thick protective mop … and a memory floated up from eighteen decades behind him. This was a puppeteer, a Pierson's puppeteer. Its brain and skull were under the hump. It was not an animal; it was at least as intelligent as a man. And its eyes, one to a head in deep bone sockets, stared fixedly at Louis Wu from two directions. Louis tried the door. Locked.

A beautiful world, alone, serene, races through the interstellar void. Warmed by necklaces of artificial suns orbiting from pole to pole, the world’s climate is everywhere and always temperate. Beneath the many suns, oceans sparkle and cloud tops gleam. Bountiful fields and lush forests span continents. Here and there cities stand, proud and prosperous. The human inhabitants call this paradise New Terra. Only in story do they remember the days when their home was known merely as Nature Preserve Four. When their home was but one farm world among many in the Fleet of Worlds. When alien masters ruled their lives. “Citizens,” the aliens called themselves and, moreover, “saviors.” But young and old on New Terra know the hard-won truth: that their former masters had attacked their ancestors’ ramscoop, not chanced upon a derelict starship. That from the wrecked ship’s embryo banks the aliens had bred a race of slaves. Independence had not come easily, but now New Terra sets its own course through space. And what of Old Terra? Earth? No one here could say where the ancestral world may lie. Not only artificial suns accompany New Terra on its seemingly endless trek through the darkness. Myriads of tiny spacecraft, sprinkled across many light-days, hold formation with the world. The early-warning array endlessly scans in all directions, endlessly probing with every known method of long-range sensing. In the planetary defense center, staffed round the clock, people try to imagine against what, besides boredom, they stand guard. New Terra is light-years from the nearest star. Aboard their Fleet of Worlds, the ruthlessly cowardly Citizens—increasingly, and aptly, come to be known to all here as Puppeteers—have receded beyond the reach of every instrument except powerful optical telescopes. Suddenly every element in the planetary early-warning array clamors in unison. Every watch stander in the planetary defense center jolts to full alertness to stare at their consoles. To gape at the impossible.

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