6/10/2023 0 Comments The Uplift War by David Brin![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was status normally accorded only royalty, but within the palanquin all went on unnoticed as the bureaucrat's heavy beak lowered toward the holo-image. Aircars and floater barges darted aside and regimented lanes of traffic melted away before the bright beacon of the official vehicle. Two downy aides fluttered quietly nearby, preening the bureaucrat's feathers and bright torc for the appointment ahead. Crazy Terran concepts were infecting its mind. The absurd idea demonstrated that the bureaucrat had spent too much time studying the enemy. There was the feeling one had only to reach out with a talon and seize.īut no. If I were one of the gods spoken of in wolfling legends. Blue seas and a jewel-bright spray of islands came into view as the bureaucrat watched, sparkling in the reflected glow of an out-of-view star. But no sound penetrated to disturb the bureaucrat of Cost and Caution, who concentrated only on the holo-image of a small planet, turning slowly within reach of one down-covered arm. Traffic roared amid the towers of Capital City, just beyond the sealed crystal dome of the official palanquin. How strange, that such an insignificant little world should come to matter so much. ![]()
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