Eric Flint - Pyramid Scheme, Angielskie [EN](4)(2)
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Pyramid Scheme
Table of Contents
Prologue
PART I
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
PART II
9
10
11
12
13
14
PART III
15
16
17
18
19
PART IV
20
21
22
23
PART V
24
25
26
27
PART VI
28
29
30
PART VII
31
32
33
34
35
36
Page 1
PART VIII
37
38
39
40
41
42
PART IX
43
44
45
46
47
48
PART X
49
50
51
Acknowledgements
APPENDIX
MAPS
Pyramid Scheme
by Dave Freer & Eric Flint
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any
resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright (c) 2001 by Dave Freer & Eric Flint
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
Page 2
www.baen.com
ISBN: 0-671-31839-X
Cover art by Bob Eggleton
Interior maps by Randy Asplund
First printing, October 2001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Freer, Dave.
Pyramid scheme / by Dave Freer & Eric Flint.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original—T.p. verso.
ISBN 0-671-31839-X
1. Human-alien encounters—Fiction. 2. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction.
3. Mythology—Fiction. 4. Pyramids—Fiction. I. Flint, Eric. II. Title.
PS3556.R3935 P9 2001
813'.54—dc21 2001035798
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
Page 3
To L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt,
who are gone;
And to Zachary, who just arrived.
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought he might require,
'E went an' took—
Rudyard Kipling,
Introduction to the Barrack-Room Ballads
in "The Seven Seas"
Baen Books by DAVE FREER & Eric Flint
Rats, Bats & Vats
Pyramid Scheme
BAEN BOOKS by ERIC FLINT
Mother of Demons
1632
The Philosophical Strangler
Page 4
The Belisarius series, with David Drake:
An Oblique Approach
In the Heart of Darkness
Destiny's Shield
Fortune's Stroke
The Tide of Victory
The Federation of the Hub series,
by James H. Schmitz, edited by Eric Flint:
Telzey Amberdon
T'nT: Telzey & Trigger
Trigger & Friends
The Hub: Dangerous Territory
Agent of Vega & Other Stories
(forthcoming)
BAEN BOOKS by DAVE FREER
The Forlorn
Prologue
The new NESOT (Near Earth Space Object Tracking) satellite paid dividends less than three months
after its launch. The computerized system spat a data stream on the incoming object to NORAD. It did
this for any detected object which would enter the Earth's atmosphere.
The level of NORAD tracking which dealt with objects that should burn up on atmospheric entry was
computerized. An alarm sequence was triggered by any anomaly. Twenty-three seconds after it took
over from NESOT, the alarm sounded.
* * *
Brigadier General Durham looked over the shoulder of the warrant officer at the screen display. He took
a deep breath.
Chicago!
He took another deep breath. The procedures were laid down. It had been something of a joke. But the
NESOT data showed that it wasn't a joke. Not
at all
funny, in reality. This was incoming from deep
space. And it was decelerating. Falling objects don't naturally do that.
Incoming. Incoming and
alien
.
* * *
Page 5
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Pyramid Scheme
Table of Contents
Prologue
PART I
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
PART II
9
10
11
12
13
14
PART III
15
16
17
18
19
PART IV
20
21
22
23
PART V
24
25
26
27
PART VI
28
29
30
PART VII
31
32
33
34
35
36
Page 1
PART VIII
37
38
39
40
41
42
PART IX
43
44
45
46
47
48
PART X
49
50
51
Acknowledgements
APPENDIX
MAPS
Pyramid Scheme
by Dave Freer & Eric Flint
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any
resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright (c) 2001 by Dave Freer & Eric Flint
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
Page 2
www.baen.com
ISBN: 0-671-31839-X
Cover art by Bob Eggleton
Interior maps by Randy Asplund
First printing, October 2001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Freer, Dave.
Pyramid scheme / by Dave Freer & Eric Flint.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original—T.p. verso.
ISBN 0-671-31839-X
1. Human-alien encounters—Fiction. 2. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction.
3. Mythology—Fiction. 4. Pyramids—Fiction. I. Flint, Eric. II. Title.
PS3556.R3935 P9 2001
813'.54—dc21 2001035798
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
Page 3
To L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt,
who are gone;
And to Zachary, who just arrived.
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought he might require,
'E went an' took—
Rudyard Kipling,
Introduction to the Barrack-Room Ballads
in "The Seven Seas"
Baen Books by DAVE FREER & Eric Flint
Rats, Bats & Vats
Pyramid Scheme
BAEN BOOKS by ERIC FLINT
Mother of Demons
1632
The Philosophical Strangler
Page 4
The Belisarius series, with David Drake:
An Oblique Approach
In the Heart of Darkness
Destiny's Shield
Fortune's Stroke
The Tide of Victory
The Federation of the Hub series,
by James H. Schmitz, edited by Eric Flint:
Telzey Amberdon
T'nT: Telzey & Trigger
Trigger & Friends
The Hub: Dangerous Territory
Agent of Vega & Other Stories
(forthcoming)
BAEN BOOKS by DAVE FREER
The Forlorn
Prologue
The new NESOT (Near Earth Space Object Tracking) satellite paid dividends less than three months
after its launch. The computerized system spat a data stream on the incoming object to NORAD. It did
this for any detected object which would enter the Earth's atmosphere.
The level of NORAD tracking which dealt with objects that should burn up on atmospheric entry was
computerized. An alarm sequence was triggered by any anomaly. Twenty-three seconds after it took
over from NESOT, the alarm sounded.
* * *
Brigadier General Durham looked over the shoulder of the warrant officer at the screen display. He took
a deep breath.
Chicago!
He took another deep breath. The procedures were laid down. It had been something of a joke. But the
NESOT data showed that it wasn't a joke. Not
at all
funny, in reality. This was incoming from deep
space. And it was decelerating. Falling objects don't naturally do that.
Incoming. Incoming and
alien
.
* * *
Page 5
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