The Lowest Heaven (Alastair Reynolds) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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She had waited a full turn around the galaxy to come back here. She could wait a couple terrestrial turns more.

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This is one of nine wall hangings, all on astronomical themes, produced by the Working Men’s Educational Union. The Union (founded 1853) was a philanthropic society with the object of “the elevation of the working classes, as regards their physical, intellectual, moral and religious condition”. This banner would have been used in one of the Union’s many lectures. It depicts two star clusters or nebulae. (c1850)