Xenocide (Ender Wiggins Saga)

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Autoren: Orson Scott Card

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    "Could it control the computer?"

    "How long did you use this bridge? How long was it there?"

    "But it was still there the whole time you were studying me."

    "How long would it last?"

    "But what body was the bridge in?"

    "This thing was inside me?"

    "No. To you it was like-- a bodily function. Like balling up your fist to hit somebody. You did it, and then when you didn't need it you didn't notice whether your fist was still there or not."

    "It's still alive, isn't it?"

    "But it would still be linked to the computer, wouldn't it? A connection between me and the computer. Only the pattern could have grown, couldn't it? It could include other people, too. Think of it being linked to Miro-- the young man I brought with me--"

    "And instead of being linked to that one computer, linked to thousands and thousands of them, through the ansible links between worlds."

    "And I always thought-- Jane and I always thought that she was-- that she had somehow come to exist in the ansible connections between worlds. That's probably where she feels herself, the place that feels like the center of her-- body, I was going to say."

    "Like trying to find a particular muscle that you've been using all your life but never by itself."

    "The comparison?"

    "Jane," whispered Ender. "You're a big girl now."
    Jane's voice came in answer: "You're cheating, Ender. I can't hear what she's saying to you. I can only feel your heart pounding and your rapid breathing."

    "Neither is Jane."

    "She's the bridge. You made her."
    < Called her. You made the pattern. She possessed it. What she is , this Jane, this bridge, she began with the pattern we discovered in you and the Fantasy Game, yes, but she has imagined herself to be much larger. She must have been a very strong and powerful-- philote, if your word is the right name-- to be able to change her own pattern and still remember to be herself.>
    "You reached out across the light-years and found me because I was looking for you . And then you found a pattern and called a creature from another space who grasped the pattern and possessed it and became Jane. All of this instantaneously. Faster than light."

    "I know. I know. This may not help us answer the question I came here with. But I had another question, just as important to me, that I never thought would have anything to do with you, and here you had the answer to it all