"Brian Lumley - Psychomech 03 - Psychamok" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lumley Brian)

For an instant, even as his body had been shaken, vibrating with the current surging through it, Garrison had
felt strong again. His eyes had brightened and his multi-mind had been illumined. Then, deliberately, he had
plugged himself into the electrical source, jamming himself into a corner where he throbbed and burned and
absorbed power as a sponge soaks up water.
Electrocuted, he felt only strength. Fingers, hands and forearms crisped and blackened, he knew no pain.
Twice-blind, he saw again, saw more than mere eyes could ever show him. For at last he knew how to
recharge his sorely depleted mental batteries, and charge them as never before!
With his mind he opened the great dam's gates, drawing off millions of volts from the energy so released.
And when that was not enough he sought more power still, stretching out his mind and leeching from the
atomic power station at Dounreay - until Scotland's very grid was dampened and lights burned low all
across the land. Strange aurorae filled the skies, and the valley where the dam now thundered became
luminous with eerie radiations and weirdly flickering energies.
And at last, in one great blast of raw power - a Titan bolt of energy from the sky - finally Garrison
underwent his transition. Every last physical vestige of Richard Allan Garrison was removed forever from
the world of men, but the mental Garrison had ascended to a higher plane.
In his dream the Goddess Immortality had shown Garrison her abode - her House in the Stars, which was
nothing less than the Infinite Universe itself - and now Garrison would go there, would venture to the limits
of the very Psychosphere. Nor would he venture alone, for Schroeder and Koenig, yes, and Suzy too, would
be with him.
But first there were things to do.
And Garrison reached out into the Psychosphere and made adjustments. He touched things and changed
them. And as if the world were a vast book where Garrison's era was a single chapter written in pencil, he
rewrote certain passages and erased others completely; all of which took a single microsecond of time
before he wrote finis on that chapter. And in the world of men things were changed at a stroke and would
never be the same again.
In the world of men . . .
... In Charon Gubwa's Castle, Phillip Stone and Vicki had made a bid for freedom. Recaptured by the albino
madman, they had been inches from death when Garrison's transition took place - his and the world's!
Gubwa was one of the changes Garrison made.
In his pre-supposed moment of triumph the leprous hermaphrodite felt defeat, felt another mind within his
own. A mind awesome in its power and pitiless in its resolve. Garrison had seen the stars themselves and
would now show them to Gubwa. But Gubwa's body was of flesh and his mind still mortal. Plunged like an
upward-hurtling meteor into the vault of the sky, the ESP-master died horribly, his menace removed
forever.
And also removed, dug out at their roots, many of the world's worst evils; and it was as if they had never
been.
Another change was this:
That Vicki Maler was merely a woman now, whose husband, Phillip Stone, was rich and successful. And
they were happy and had never known any other way. What memories there were were good ones,
however vague or misty, but what mattered was not yesterday but today and tomorrow.
Especially tomorrow, for Vicki was pregnant. . .

Thus it was that Garrison and his companions left behind them a world very nearly perfect, a world largely
purged and purified. They left a good world, a sane world. In short, they left a world where the Balance
had been disrupted almost irreparably.
But the Balance is the Law. And just as there is Good so is there Evil, and for Great Good there is Great
Evil.
And slowly but surely the Psychosphere moved to restore the Balance . . .
Part I
Chapter One