"Bruce Holland Rogers - Lifeboat On A Burning Sea" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rogers Bruce Holland)

I tried to be patient, but finally I'd had enough.

"It's time you talked to me," I said as I jerked open his office door. I stormed
up to his desk. "You've been stalling for two weeks. This project is supposed to
be a collaboration!"

Without looking up from his phone screen, he said, "Come in," which was supposed
to be funny.

"Richardson," I told him, not caring who he might be talking to, "you were
brilliant. You pulled off a coup. Great! Now let's get back to work. I can sit
in my office and dream up augmentations for TOS all day, but it doesn't mean
squat if I'm not getting your feedback."

"Have a seat."

"I'd prefer to stand, damn it. We're funded. We're ready to go. Let's get
something done!"

He looked up at last and said, "I'm not a careerist, Maas. I'm not motivated by
impressing anyone."

"And I am?" I sat down, tried to catch his eye. "I want to get to work for my
own reasons, all right? The Bierley construct is incredible. Now what can we do
next?"

"What indeed?"

"Yes," said the voice of Jackson Bierley. "I'm going to be a pretty hard trick
to top, especially once you've got me in 3-D." The phone screen was at an acute
angle and hard for me to see, but now I noticed the silver hair.

"Is that it?" I said. "You spend your day on the phone, chatting with the
construct?"

Richardson said, "Bye, Jackson," and disconnected. "The construct is
interesting. This is a useful tool we've invented."

"It is," I agreed. "It's something we can build on."

"It's something lots of people can build on." He folded the phone screen down.
"A week ago I got a call from a Hollywood agent. He wanted to talk to me about
some ideas. Constructs for dead singers -- they could not only do new
recordings, but grant interviews. Dead actor constructs. TOS-generated films
scripted by dead writers and directed by Hitchcock or Huston or Spielberg or any
other dead director you'd care to name. TOS is getting so good at imaging, you'd
never need to build a set or hire avid crew."

"Is that what you've spent all this time on?"