"Matthew Woodring Stover - Caine 02 - Blade of Tyshalle" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stover Matthew Woodring)

Text design by Holly Johnson


Cover design by David Stevenson
Cover art by Dave McKean


Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition: April 2001
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This book is dedicated to the memories of some of the best friends any man
could ask for. I only wish you could have lived to read it.




For Evangeline, Aleister, and Friedrich; for Lev, John, Clive, and Terence;


for Roger and Fritz and both Bobs (Robert A. and Robert E.).




Even today, some still listen.
 But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as some-thing
that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash. Or
beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We do not conceive of sudden, irrational
change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is. And chaos theory teaches
us ... that straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything
from physics to fiction, simply does not exist... .


Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those
that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way... .


That's a deep truth about the structure of our universe. But, for some reason,
we insist on behaving as if it were not true.


—"Ian Malcom" Michael Crichton


Jurassic Park


Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.