Heart of the Comet by Gregory Benford

Author:Gregory Benford [Benford, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, High Tech, Fiction
ISBN: 9780553763416
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1995-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

DOC HALLEY-DAY AND WYATT PERCELL . . . BATTLING CREEPY

BUGS AND BUGGY CREW . . .

Could it be that the powers back home can't afford to have this popular image last too long? Both an augmented person and a former collaborator of Simon Percell in the headlines?

Oh, what a laugh! I sought obscurity and safety out in space-and find neither!

Matsudo looked away again. Saul knew, then, that this was a matter decided far above, and there would be no use inflicting protests on his uncomfortable friend.

He had seen simulations better than Matsudo's-prepared in stochastic logic by JonVon to his own models. Matsudo was right. Things were indeed getting better...or at lest they would slip downhill more slowly for the foreseeable future. Saul had hoped that it would mean more time to study-to really study-what was going on here.

There was more to all of this than a life-or-death struggle between colonists and native organisms. Much, much more, and he wanted to find out about it.

But how does one fight city hall?

Maybe I could persuade Virginia to desert with me, into the tunnels. We'll graze on green stuff; like Ingersoll. Raid the animal lockers and thaw some sheep to raise. Maybe plant sorghum down on the south forty and tell the universe to go to hell.

The ridiculous image made him smile, in spite of himself.

"I must have three months." He began the inevitable bargaining. "There are experiments to finish, and I've got to brief Svatuto. Also, Keoki and Marguerite need more training before I hand the lab over to them."

Matsudo shook his head. "Two weeks. It is all I am willing to . . . all I can risk you further."

Saul smiled. "I'll have to write a training manual for future shifts-on handling the cyanutes and using the microwave disruptor . . . Eight weeks, minimum."

After a long silence, Matsudo sighed in acquiescence. "I fear for you, Saul. But I am also selfish. I admit that it will be good to have you here for that much longer."

The black-haired immunologist looked out over the slopes of Mount Asahi. Sunset faded into a purpling night. Lowering clouds flickered with hints of thunder.

"Flesh is weak," Akio Matsudo said softly, removing his glasses to polish them one more time. "And it is lonely without friends, where only the snow falls."

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