Level 7 (Mordecai Roshwald) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

OCTOBER 5

I was asleep last night long before the reactor was repaired. This morning I was told that the job took not one hour but three, and that there was an accident: one of the atomic energy officers working on it, AE-307m, suffered a very strong overdose of radiation and died before morning.

Like X-117, AE-307m was given a short obituary over the general loudspeaker system. “He gave his life to ensure our survival,” the speaker said, and his praise of the dead man seemed to me quite fair. With no reactor we should last a very short time indeed!

It is a sad business, this. Everybody feels sorry for AE-307m. And for his widow.