"S. M. Stirling - Terminator 2 - T2 Rising Storm" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stirling S. M)

another in which the second Cyberdyne facility produced me after Sarah
Connor destroyed the first; a third has now arisen in which she destroyed
both facilities… Temporal travel has introduced an element of fundamental
uncertainty to the very fabric of existence. Different world lines, different
sequences of events, coexist in my records-and therefore presumably in
reality, in a state of quantum super imposition.

Yet the timelike loops cannot remain closed. The snake cannot devour its
tail forever. At some point only one set of time lines will remain.

Nor was that the only irony involved. "Now" its memory recorded that much of
the information it used originated in the very artifacts it had sent to the past. The
development of the cyborg infiltration units was a consequence of tapping the
talents of human scientists… but the human scientists were the survivors of the
human-hating Luddite movement that Serena Burns had opportunistically
encouraged after Skynet had sent her to the past!

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The machine consciousness was deeply troubled; only an effort of its quantum
computer will prevented its thoughts from being sucked into a logic loop.

Yet the course of events contains favorable elements. My best efforts to
destroy the Connors have failed, despite stochastic calculation indicating a
very high probability of success. I can only assume that the space-time
continuum itself is "attempting" to force events back to the original time
line, one in which I was created, succeeded in destroying the human
civilization, and then defeated in my attempts to eliminate the surviving
humans by John Connor's resistance army. It seems there is a certain
elasticity to history; time travel can bend the fabric, but it seeks to spring
back.

If that paradox preserves the Connors, it also preserves me. And from the point
on the world line where my current consciousness resides, there is an infinite
array of potential futures. And, of course, the elimination of Serena Burns has
not eliminated the possibilities of temporal intervention. Burns had initiated
fallback plans to continue after her own death. Logic indicated that…

There is no fate save that we make.

CHAPTER ONE
BRAZILIAN RAIN FOREST, STATE OF
RONDONIA, EARLY JULY, THE PRESENT
It had been nearly three weeks since they had destroyed the new Cyberdyne
facility and hopefully ended the Skynet project. John Connor and Dieter von