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- Dean R Koontz Moonlight Bay 1 Fear nothing
- Alan Burt Akers [Dray Prescot 06] Manhounds of Antares (pdf)
- Koontz Dean R Pieczara gromow (pdf)
- Koontz Dean TIK TAK
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- 07 McGinnis Alan Loy Sztuka motywacji
- John W. Campbell The Space Beyond
- Alan Dean Foster Commonwealth 05 Sentenced to Prism
- Foster, Alan Dean Damned 1 Call to Arms
- Alan Dean Foster Obcy Decydujące Starcie
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presidents of all nations as well as the entire membership of the Council are
awaiting the first results of mankind's initial face-to-face meeting with
another intelligent race!"
Cleve finished the scroll and rolled it up. He looked absently at Hinkel.
Then, very much to the surprise of the ship's officers in the party, he
grinned a dis-armingly boyish grin.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he began. "As far as it has gone, the first contact
with the race that call themselves the Murrin has been successful. They
express then- hopes for long-term friendly association between species to our
mutual benefit. Details will be ex-
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plained in a second meeting which will take place in about two hours. In
addition, a common basis for understanding has been transmitted." He started
to turn toward the Rey.
"Commander," said Hinkel. "We all saw that the Murrin sent only a single
representative to meet your party. Is this their accepted procedure?"
"Why no, it is not," replied Cleve, his grin widen-big. "There appear to have
been extenuating circumstances."
"Is that what the ship's commander said?" pressed Hinkel.
"Sort of, and it wasn't the ship's commander. It was an interpreter. An
apprentice interpreter." The grin was charming.
Hinkel feigned surprise, then concern.
"That seems rather odd, Commander Cleve. Did they it give a reason for
proceeding in such a manner?"
"Matter of fact, they did. One which you in particular, Mr. Hinkel, ought to
understand and sympathize with. It seems they could not spare the time to meet
with us just now because the entire crew is absorbed in taking in a broadcast
from their home planet."
"Incredible! Think of it, ladies and gentlemen! A beamcast across light-years!
Something important enough to draw them into postponing this delicate moment
between species; important enough to be boosted at heaven knows what cost
across trillions of miles of naked vacuum! Commander, did'the alien reveal the
nature of this broadcast to you? And if so, are you at libery to repeat it?"
"I don't see why they'd mind," said Cleve. He was watching Hinkel, not the
three bilhon pairs of eyes the camera represented.
"As near as I can make out, the commander of the alien vessel, his entire
complement, the contact team, everyone, are deeply immersed in the two
thousand four hundred and twenty-sixth episode, segment, or
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quadrant of something entitled 'At Nest With the Vorxes.'
"It would appear, ladies and gentlemen, that the human race has been
temporarily pre-empted." And he turned and walked back to the ship.
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