A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle & John Elliot

Author:Fred Hoyle & John Elliot
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harper and Brothers
Published: 1962-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

The meeting between Fleming and Dawnay was electrically charged, but nothing dramatic happened. Fleming was quiet enough, and Dawnay treated him with a kind of tolerant amusement.

“Welcome the wandering boy,” she said, and led him off to see the thing in the tank.

The creature floated peacefully in the middle of its nutrient bath; it had found the porthole and spent most of its time gazing out with its one huge lidless eye. Fleming stared back at it, but it gave no sign of registering what it saw.

“Can it communicate?”

“My dear boy,” Dawnay spoke as though she were humouring a very young student. “We’ve hardly had time to learn anything about him.”

“It has no vocal cords or anything?”

“No.”

“Um.” Fleming straightened up and looked in the top of the tank. “It might be a feeble attempt at a man.”

“A man? It doesn’t look like a man.”

Fleming strolled through to the computer room, where Christine was watching the display panel.

“Anything printing out?”

“No. Nothing.” Christine looked puzzled. “But there’s obviously something going on.”

The display lamps were winking steadily: it seemed that the machine was working away by itself without producing results.

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