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MediaDB / «Talking Stone" by Isaac Asimov: download fb2, read online
About the book: year / Siliconium is a non-humanoid life form from the asteroid belt with tissues made of solid silicone and blood made of liquid silicone. Requires gamma radiation to grow. Telepath. Ordinary silicone is small in size, but the team of KK “Robert K.” An unusually large specimen was encountered. The ship's captain concluded that his home asteroid was composed almost entirely of uranium. The team decided to take Siliconia with them and hide the coordinates of the asteroid. Uranium is food for silicon, so it can lead the team to other cosmic deposits of this metal. But a meteorite hit the ship, the entire crew died, and silicone could not tell where his home was..