The Coming of the Quantum Cats (Frederik Pohl) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. 15)

A farmer named Wayne Sochsteiffer woke up to the sound of the early news report on radio station WGN, yawned, stretched, plodded over to the window, wondering whether he would have to put water on the beans in the north forty. When he got to the window he yelped in surprise. The north forty wasn't there. What was there was a chain-link fence, a parking lot that looked as though it would hold a thousand cars, and a long, low building that bore the sign: NISSAN MOTORS—YOUR BEST IN QUALITY.

This Wayne Sochsteiffer was mightily surprised.

This Wayne Sochsteiffer was not nearly so surprised as a farmer named Wayne Sochsteiffer who woke up in the same way, looked out the same window, and saw only what he expected to see: his north forty, olive-green in the early morning light. His farm was there. His surprise came when he turned back to the double bed and saw, peering out at him sleepily from her side of the covers, a quite different wife.