"Vonda N. McIntyre - Starfarers" - читать интересную книгу автора (McIntyre Vonda N)

"Was there a problem?"

"They didn't want to load my equipment."

"Whyever not?"

"Because it didn't look like equipment to them. They tried
to redefine it as personal and make me take only what I could
fit in my allowance."

"What kind of equipment is it?"

"Information, mostly."

"Why didn't you put it on the web? Arachne can always
give it back to you."


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"Most of it is books, and most of the books I have aren't
in any databases."

"You could have had them scanned."

"Some of them are unique, though, and they get so beat
up when you send them out for scanning. I didn't have time
to do it myself."

"What kind of books are you talking about?"

"Old ones. You won't understand until you see them." ,

"How many did you bring?"

"Three hundred fifty-seven kilos."

"Good lord."

"That isn't really very much, when you're talking about

books."

"And it isn't half what any experimental physicist would
bring. As for a geneticist—" Victoria laughed. "Considering
all the stuff Stephen Thomas brought, you'd think he was
single-handedly in charge of diversity and cloning."