Only automatons were working on the bridge. In the crosshairs of their field of vision was the disk of a sun that was not much hotter than a regular red dwarf. When it filled half the width of the screen the annihilation reactor was turned off. For some time, throughout the ship there was a dead silence.
The air conditioning and digital instruments went on functioning without a sound. There was no longer the faint vibration accompanying the shaft of light that had previously been streaming from the stern and, like a sword of infinite length thrust into the darkness, had been propelling the ship forward. The Invincible continued to move at close to the speed of light: inert, mute, and seemingly deserted.
You are here: Home Books novels The Invincible. I will definitely recommend this book to science fiction, fiction lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Great book, The Invincible pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Lauda was subjected to vigorous attacks. Horpach realized that the basis for their violent arguments was not so much their objections to Lauda's explanations as the fact that he had discussed them first with the commander rather than with his colleagues.
Despite their good relations with the rest of the crew, the scientists formed a "state within a state" on board ship and followed a definite unwritten code of behavior. Kronotos, the senior cyberneticist, asked Lauda how the cloud could have learned to attack men if it were devoid of intellect. I'm referring to their fight against the original denizens of Regis III, animals with a central nervous system. The cloud learned to attack them the same way a terrestrial insect will attack its victim, and with the same precision with which a wasp injects its poison into the nerve fibers of a cricket or a grasshopper.
No intelligence is needed for that, just instinct. Surely they've never met up with aircraft before. The cloud fought on two fronts, as I've already pointed out, my dear colleague. Against the organic inhabitants of Regis III, and against the inorganic kindthe automatons, the robots.
These robots must necessarily have resorted to all kinds of defensive and offensive means. Lauda wants to make here," remarked Saurahan, the assistant cyberneticist.
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