Tangents by Greg Bear

Author:Greg Bear
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, American, General, Self-Help
ISBN: 9781857989793
Publisher: Millennium Paperbacks
Published: 1989-01-02T02:00:00+00:00

Last orbit before going home. Willy looked awfully good.

I climbed inside of him through the transfer tunnel and requested

TANGENTS

a long drink of miserable orbiter water. "Hey, Willy Ley," I

said, "you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." Of

course, all he did was take care of me. No accusations.

He's the only friend I have now.

I spoke to mission control. That was not easy. An hour

ago. I'm sitting by the telescope, having pushed Willy's sensors

out of the way, doing my own surveying and surmising.

So far, the Winter Troops--I assume they're responsible--have

zoned and partially built up Mare Tyrennhum, Hesperia,

and Mare Cimmerium. They've done something I can't decipher

or really describe in Aethiopis. By now I'm sure they've

got to the old expedition landers in Syrtis Major and Minor. I

don't know what they'll do with them. Maybe add them to the

road-building material.

Maybe understand them.

I have no idea what they're like, no idea at all. I can't. We

can't. They move too fast, grow along instinctive lines, perhaps.

Instinct for culture and technology. They may not be

intelligent in the way we define intelligence, not as individuals,

anyway. But they do move.

Perhaps they're just resurrecting what their ancestors left

them fifty, a hundred thousand years ago, before the long,

warm, wet Spring of Mars drove them underground and brought

up the sprouts of aqueduct-bridges.

At any rate, I've been in orbit for a week and a half.

They've gone from cradle to sky in that time.

I've seen their balloons.

And I've seen the distant fires of their rockets, icy blue

and sharp like hydroxy torches. They seem to be testing. In a

few days, they'll have it.

Beware, Control. These brave lads will go far.

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