Ghost Devices by Simon Bucher_Jones

Author:Simon Bucher_Jones [Bucher_Jones, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, High Tech, Women Archaeologists, Precognition, Spires
ISBN: 0426205146
Google: PjoFAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0426205146
Publisher: Virgin Pub
Published: 1997-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

In the battered observation dome of the starship Second-Best

Buy, Bernice recuperated and played join-the-dots.

The dictionary was a thick swatch of printout. According to

Tenomi, the Vo‟lach had been most insistent about forbidding

any intrusion by alien technology upon their world. The

diplomatic party would go down with the minimum technical

backup, and he wanted the team familiar with pen-and-paper

solutions.

Tenomi‟s Gods were apparently quite touchy about the

introduction of alien technology to their... Bernice groped for

a word. „Biosphere‟ wasn‟t really appropriate, perhaps

„machine shop‟ or „workings‟ was better, but somehow both

terms gave her a cold sensation when applied to a planet.

Shivers aside, there were plenty of reasons not to

antagonize the Vo‟lach. Bernice scowled at her doodling. Her

tentative translation of the bomb pattern hieroglyphs across

the Northern Continental mass read „Death to Pseudolife‟ and

„Purity in Silica‟. Touchy seemed something of an

understatement. She was pondering the paradoxes of the

Vo‟lach for the thousandth time when a shadow flung itself

over her face as the observation dome polarized. Over the

west ocean chain, on the nightside horizon of the turning

planet, a nuclear reaction made a false, glaring, sunrise as

heavy-metal nuclei met their end in a stream of neutrons.

The Vo‟lach had warned Tenomi that „suppression of sea life‟

was still being carried out and that any diplomatic party

should put down as far inland as possible. In the last twelve

hours, while the Canopusi was negotiating their landing,

three other fission bombs had exploded on the other side of

the planet. The ship‟s neutrino-deflection sensors picked up

the more exotic particle production right through the planet‟s

mantle. Bernice didn‟t have a problem with staying inland.

Yes, sir, inland was looking good.

Bernice wondered again how Tenomi had persuaded the

Vo‟lach to talk to them at all.

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