Beyond Heavens River by Greg Bear

Author:Greg Bear [Bear, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: #noisbn
ISBN: 0759222584
Published: 2010-05-16T11:44:58+00:00

"I wouldn't want to try."

"Nor I. So let me run this through its course. We won't lose anything we really need."

"What are you going to do about the Ring Stars?"

Anna pointed to the screen. "I'm keeping my eye on them. Looks like the supernova has dusted the whole area with superheavy elements. We might stake a few claims."

"No word from the Aighors, and no word on whether the disrupters are still operating."

"Keep me informed. I'm not beyond the pale, Jason. I'm still interested and aware."

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"Glad to hear it. Follow your wyrd, Anna, but keep my heart and arteries in mind, all right?"

"I'll try, Jason."

"Thank you." He looked very worn, and Nestor felt a twinge of guilt. Her slightest whims could take years off a good man's working life.

"Jason, you have my love and respect. If anything goes critical, pull me up no matter what I say. And Yoshio too, of course."

"I'll do my damnedest. Out."

"Out."

A faint haze hung in the air where DiNova's image had been. The voice spoke up. "Where may I send your commodities, madam?"

"Kodiak, Alaska, and book us right behind them. Voice, you've done well by us so far. Can you get us an agent who'll be discreet and too set in his ways to care about world news?"

"I've anticipated madam. One is waiting your instructions at this moment."

"Good. Voice, have one of your programs charged to the ASNWSPeloros . You're a first-class design."

"My children thank you."

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Twenty "I laid a false trail," Anna said. "We have two days left on Earth before thePeloros can take advantage of a conjunction. Where do you want to go?"

"I heard Nakamura say we had an appointment in Kyushu."

"It's been canceled."

"Then let's keep it."

Anna smiled. "I know why you're doing so well. You've got a devious mind."

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He shook his head. "I have two places to visit there. I have read of a man I would like to meet, and a museum I would like to visit."

The surface effect ship, rented just hours before, made its leisurely hundred-knot passage with almost no sound but the whoosh of spray and music coming through speakers in the bulkhead. They sat on an upper deck, letting the sun shine on them between the shadows of high, woolen clouds, watching the blue-gray sea and the distant haze of the Japanese coast. Just an hour before, they had passed a maritime city farm, like a giant snowflake laid gently on the sea, surrounded by thousands of submarine pens marked with brilliant orange buoys.

Now the air was cooling, and it looked like a storm was coming. Nestor handed Kawashita a pair of polarized glasses and told him to look through them. He peered up and saw a distant curtain of shimmering light marching across the sea ahead.

"Weather controls," she explained. "We're entering a planned low-pressure disturbance. I'll tell the pilot where to take us, so he can chart his course and skirt the weather.

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