"John Dalmas - Return to Fanglith" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dalmas John)

Bubba's standards, our wilderness skills were still
pretty poor, of course. Espwolves had been pack
hunters before their planet banged heads with a
comet. Only a few dozen of them got evacuated with
the human colonists there. Bubba had been pretty much
grown already-old enough to have learned the skills
of an adult wolf.
Espwolves are more than just telepathic. They're
intelligent, with mental processes a lot like
humans'. You kind of half forget that sometimes,
because they look so much like any large canid
species, and because they don't say much.

That's right-some of them can talk. Bubba had taught
himself to speak Evdashian, more or less. By
combining telepathy with intelligence, he'd analyzed
words and speech patterns, and their meanings. Then
he'd substituted certain sounds he could make for the
human speech sounds he couldn't.
His approximation of Evdashian wasn't easy for him,
though, so he wasn't much for small talk.

Because he belonged to a telepathic species, his
brain probably didn't even have a speech center, and
his mouth and throat weren't built for talking. His
grammar was adequate, but rough-anything to keep it
brief-and he usually avoided words that were hard for
him, but with practice you could understand him. Our
family had no trouble at all.

Anyway, a month earlier, the news had come that the
Federation had declared itself "The Glondis Empire."
That wouldn't make a lot of difference on Federation
planets. Since the Glondis Party had taken over the
Federation government, a few years before I was born,
they'd run it more and more as a Party dictatorship.

But the declaration of empire would make a big
difference to us. Our parents and Piet talked a lot
about politics in front of us and to us; it was part
of our continuing education. And they'd agreed that
if it was now formally calling itself an empire, then
the Party must feel about ready to start taking over
the outlying independent planets. It would be just a
matter of time before they got to us.

Evdash had been colonized by refugees the last time
the central worlds had been an empire, four centuries
ago. Most of the so-called colony worlds had been
settled by refugees at one time or another. The