"George Zebrowski - The Sunspacers Trilogy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Zebrowski George)

Getting Ready

Jupiter ballooned into view on the south wall of the cafeteria. The voyaging eye
of the 3-D motion mural sailed by the giant planet, rotated gracefully to peer

at a few major moons, then fixed its gaze on the long way to Saturn.

Chico Fernandez's tour loop of sunspace made the basement level of Bronx

Science/De Witt Clinton Commons into something like the brightly lit observation

deck of a giant spaceship, but no one paid much attention. After you've rushed

out from Mercury to Pluto a few times, the endless round trip begins to bore

most people, despite the whip turns, long looks, and sudden speedups near the

planets.

I looked at my empty bubble of nonfat milk, wondering if I wanted another, maybe

with apple pie. There wouldn't be much time for me to talk to Morey Green-Wolfe

before our two o'clock physics class. He was late, as usual, and I felt

irritated.

Home screens had been scrambled from May to June , so classes would meet in

person. High school students were usually brought together in January, May, and

June, but graduating seniors could get away with only a month of staying

together. Screen attendance made people shy, some educators claimed, but I had

my doubts. It was true that there were sponges who liked to stay home and

plunder the world's libraries at their own dizzy pace, but I knew of too many

people who had met over the screen hooks to believe that becoming friends in

that way was all that hard to do, or very harmful. Some people preferred to

start out over the net. They would meet sooner or later, or not at all, but the

system made it easier for shy people to get to know each other in the first

place, without much chance of things going wrong. It was more like having an

old-fashioned pen pal, except that the notes and letters were sent differently