"Connie Willis - Uncharted Territory" - читать интересную книгу автора (Willis Connie)

He blushed a nice pink. "I've already met her."

"She told you her name yet?" I said.

"Her name?" he said blankly.

"What C.J. stands for," I said. "She must be slipping," I said to Carson.

Carson ignored me. "If you're an expert on sex," Carson said, looking over at Bult, who was heading for
the rover, "you can help us tell which one Bult is."

"I thought the Boohteri were a simple two-sex species," Evelyn said.

"They are," Carson said, "only we can't tell which one's which."

"All their equipment's on the inside," I said, "not like C.J.'s. It—"

"Speaking of which, did she have supper ready?" Carson said. "Not that it makes any difference to us. At
this rate we'll still be out here tomorrow morning."

"Oh. Of course," Evelyn said, looking dismayed, "you're eager to get back to headquarters. I didn't mean
to keep you. I was just so excited to actually meet you!" He started off for the rover. Bult was hunched
over the front tire. He unfolded three leg joints when Evelyn came up. "Damage to indigenous fauna," he
said. "Seventy-five."

Evelyn said to me, "Have I done something wrong?"

"Hard not to in these parts," I said. "Bult, you can't fine Evelyn for running over a roadkill."

"Running over—" Evelyn said. He leapt in the rover and roared it back off the roadkill, and then jumped
out again. "I didn't see it!" he said, peering at its flattened brown body. "I didn't mean to kill it! Honestly,
I—"

"You can't kill a roadkill just by parking a rover on it," I said, poking it with my toe. "You can't even
wake it up."

Bult pointed at the tire tracks Evelyn'd just made. "Disruption of land surface. Twenty-five."

"Bult, you can't fine Evelyn," I said. "He's not a member of the expedition."

"Disruption of land surface," Bult said, pointing at the tire tracks.

"Shouldn't I have come out here in the rover?" Evelyn said worriedly.
"Sure you should," I said, clapping him on the shoulder, " 'cause now you can give me a ride home.
Carson, bring in my pony for me." I opened the door of the rover.

"I'm not getting stuck out here with the ponies while you ride back in style," Carson said. "I'll ride in with
Evelyn, and you bring the ponies."