Moonseed. Stephen Baxter

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Название Moonseed
Автор произведения Stephen Baxter
Жанр Научная фантастика
Серия
Издательство Научная фантастика
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780007392353



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string theory is a description of the rest of the lion.’

      ‘With about as much guesswork involved. Yes. But now, it’s as if Venus has conveniently transmuted into the biggest particle accelerator in the universe. We can see the stuff we struggled to describe before. Now, even the sceptical types are saying we might reach a true Theory of Everything in five, ten years at most. The excitement is extraordinary …’

      But now Alfred had found something else on the IAU net. Evidence of more Planckian cosmic radiation, just a trickle of it, coming – not from a remote planet, not from exotic sources that lay maybe beyond the Galaxy itself – but a lot closer to home.

      He pulled up a sketchy diagram from a new preprint: a circle centred on a schematic Earth, two points picked out on the orbit of the Moon. ‘L4 and L5. Gravitationally stable, like shallow pits in spacetime: the places in the Moon’s orbit, ahead of it and behind it, where you’d expect debris to collect. Dust, whatever.’

      She looked at the closely-printed text, tried to follow it. ‘What are they saying? That the Venus killer is there?’

      ‘No. Just that, on a small scale, the processes we’re observing on Venus are replicated there, on a much smaller scale.’

      She frowned. ‘How so? Something working on the raw material there? But what?’

      ‘I don’t know.’

      ‘And how did it get there? Did it start on Venus, and come here, to Earth-Moon? Or …’ Or did it start here, on Earth or Moon, and spread out across space, to Venus?

      There was, of course, no answer: merely new pieces of the puzzle, fragmentary glimpses, imperfectly described by the staid, passive language of technical papers.

      Glimpses of something monstrous.

      She wondered how she was going to express this to the Administration.

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