" Perry Rhodan 0033 - (25) Snowman in Flames" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

The Springers are cruel, cunning and ruthless aliens who will stop at nothing in their mission to take over
new planetary sectors and monopolise galactic trade. Earth is an obvious target and when Etztak,
Patriarch of the Springers, gives the order to ‘Destroy That Planet’, an emergency message is sent out…



CAN PERRY AND HIS MUTANTS SAVE THE SOLAR SYSTEM…?



This is the stirring story of–


SNOWMAN IN FLAMES


1/ THE SEMI-SLEEPERS



The Universe was his domain, his home the gigantic spaceship—2100 feet in length—which was the
longest armed craft of his clan.

He was old. Ancient.

A mighty mane of ice-grey hair framed his tanned face with its hard, pitiless eyes which had looked upon
thousands of suns.

He looked like a human being but he was not born on Earth. He had never even seen Earth, not even its
sun.

He was Etztak, Patriarch of the Springers clan; tight-set of mouth, commanding of character, a being
whose vocabulary lacked the word ‘compromise’; and he was about to incorporate a new solar system
into the Empire of the Traders.

A solar system whose central sun was known as Sol. The Springers were so named because they called
the universe their home and leapt from system to system to reinforce and enlarge their trading monopoly.
Ever stronger, ever expanding.

The Springers were descendants of the Arkonides, that humanoid race that once upon a time had built a
mighty… which to this day they stillbelieved they ruled. Wrong: long since the Springers had be-come
independent, no longer giving any allegiance to the Arkonides. They were too busy trading and massing
fortunes. And, if necessary, fighting.

Like now.

Etztak’s lips drew pencil-thin when he recognized on the videoscreen the face of his clan member and
friend Orlgans aboard the shipORLA XI only a few light-minutes away.
"What’s up? A new attack on those damned Terranians?"