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Автор Диана Дуэйн
Contents
Title page
Copyright page
Version history
Time fix
Young Wizards: Lifeboats
Rubrics
ONE: JD 2455600. 4380
TWO: Sol III: 2/2/2011
THREE: Rirhath B / the Crossings
FOUR: 11848 Cephei IV / Tevaral
FIVE: Thursday
SIX: Friday
SEVEN: Saturday
EIGHT: Sunday
NINE: Monday
TEN: Tuesday
ELEVEN: Wednesday
TWELVE: February 14, 2011: Tevaral
THIRTEEN: February 14, 2011: Earth
Afterword
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Young Wizards:
Lifeboats
Diane Duane
Errantry Press
County Wicklow
Republic of Ireland
Young Wizards: Lifeboats
Diane Duane
Published by Errantry Press, an imprint of EbooksDirect. dianeduane. com, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
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© 2015 Diane Duane: all rights reserved. This work may not be republished or reproduced by any means, electronic or otherwise, without the express written permission of the author.
This ebook is version / edition 1. 01 of the work, dated 21 September 2015.
Young Wizards: Lifeboats is a canonical work in the Young Wizards universe and conforms to the timeline established in the Young Wizards New Millennium Editions.
Content advisory: Please note that this work contains several brief scenes in which non-explicit age-appropriate discussions of human sexuality appear. Parental discretion may be advisable where younger readers are involved.
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Version history
v1. 00 (6 September 2015): Initial Ebooks Direct release
v1. 01 (21 September 2015): Correction of typographical errors; formatting adjustments.
Time fix
This work falls between Young Wizards book 9, A Wizard of Mars, and the forthcoming book 10, Games Wizards Play. *
Its events follow those of the Young Wizards novellas Not On My Patch and How Lovely Are Thy Branches, and occur on February 2nd, 2011, and between JD 2455595. 5118 and JD 2455602. 2003 respectively… depending on where you’re standing.
*coming February 2, 2016 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Click here to preorder at Amazon. com.
Young Wizards: Lifeboats
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any [long-term] survival value.
— Arthur C. Clarke (amendment via Stephen Hawking)
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
— Edwin Louis Cole
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
— Thornton Wilder
ONE:
JD 2455600. 4380
In the pursuit of the business of errantry, most wizards who walk the High Road past the borders of atmosphere swiftly become used to looking up into strange skies—nights with extra moons, days with extra suns, skies with (compared to the observer’s homeworld) too many stars or not nearly enough. Rings arching overhead, their complex detail blunted and tinted by atmosphere in a hundred shades of pastel; multicolored nebula-veils flung crumpled and glowing across tens of millions of miles of darkness; comet-tails painting the endless night with the palest and most attenuated of brushstrokes—all these become relatively commonplace.
