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  • MediaDB / «The Ring of Sagittarius" by Julian May: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2003 / Just look at this little man, a comatose man in a dysstatic tank, connected to a psychotronic machine that brings sweet dreams. Genetic engineering is working on the guy. That's all he knows, since he's already spent a lot of time in one of the damned boxes - if only he knew where and when! But the details are unknown. He drifts in his glass coffin, in an oxygen-containing bubbling liquid, too dull from drugs and from the sleep-programming REMori vaccine to react adequately at least during brief periods of semi-conscious awakening. Pieces of reality that he manages to intercept during periods of wakefulness, staring myopically out of the viscous transparent fluids seem unreal and vague. All I remember is fear and impotent anger. During such a break, a bright picture from the past pops up in the memory of a person floating in a viscous mess....