"Gagne, Stefan - Haven Borne" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gagne Stefan)

H A V E N
B O R N

A Novel by Stefan Gagne

In a Future We'd Like To See

Legal Disclaimer -

This short story series, characters, plots, concepts, fonts, styles, and
alphanumeric characters copyright (C) 1994 MCMXCII by Stefan Gagne, all
rights reserved, etc. etc. What this means is if you write a story called
Haven Born with wacky characters named Doc, Random, or Lime, I can sue your
ass off and laugh hysterically as my ordinarily thin pockets are amplified
by legal reprimands. You've been warned.

The character of Number Two doesn't fall in this copyright zone.

Author's Note...

This is part of a much longer series (Space Patrol), so I'll have to
summarize the plot for anybody who hasn't read that. If you have, spin on.
If you haven't, you might want to consider reading SP first, as this wrapup
isn't terribly detailed, or even terribly good.

Also, for regular readers of the series, a quick warning : this one is
considerably more serious and depressing than the usual silliness and dark
humor...

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VOS (Virtual Operating System) was originally programmed by some chap named
Qwerty, a Murfle Programming God sort of guy who used it to interrogate
people who had information he wanted. A cheap, efficent way to get insider
tips and remove competition. Victims would jack them into the Township (the
first matrix), and due to the fact that VOS resembles reality VERY well
when given enough power, they never knew they were in VR.

Twerp, a character from the Space Patrol series, made an appearance as a
prisoner in the Township before it went under. This is somewhat ironical
because Twerp is Qwerty's brother; Twerp finds out it Qwerty ran the place
awhile later.

Something went horribly wrong and the Township crashed. Qwerty disappeared,
but accidentally left behind a sub-program that handled artificial
intelligence along with the whole VOS software.

When MacroWare and William Doors found the ruins of the Township's computer
system, they claimed VOS to be their own. Nobody knew about Number Two, the
universes only fully realistic artifical intelligence until William