| - Которая из них - наш мир? - спросила Лидия. |
| "This," he said. | - Вот эта, - показал он. |
| "So small. So far away." | - Такая маленькая... Так далеко... |
| "I've only been traveling a few hours. | - Я лечу только несколько часов. |
| It'll get smaller." | Она станет еще меньше. |
| He hadn't had time to take anyone with him. | У него не было времени на поиски. |
| The members of his family had been scattered all over the planet when the alarm came, not one of them within five hours of home-Lydia and Lynx holidaying in the South Polar Sea, Mark archaeologizing on the Westerland Plateau. | Когда раздался сигнал тревоги, члены его семья находились кто где - Лидия и Линкс отдыхали у Южного Полярного моря, Марк был в археологической экспедиции на Западном Плато. |
| The integrator net told him it was a Contingency C situation: get offplanet within ninety minutes, or get ready to die. | Интеграторная сеть сообщила о возникновении "ситуации С" - оставить планету в течение девяноста минут или принять смерть. |
| The forces of the junta had reached the capital and were on their way to pick him up. | Войска хунты достигли столицы и осадили дворец. |
| The escape ship had been ready, gathering dust in its buried vault. | Спасательный корабль находился наготове в подземном ангаре. |
| He hadn't been able to reach Juan. | Связаться с Хуаном не удалось. |
| He hadn't been able to reach anybody. He used up sixty of his ninety minutes trying to get in touch with people, and then, with stunner shells already hissing overhead, he had gone into the ship and taken off. | Шестьдесят из драгоценных девяноста минут утоли на бесплодные попытки разыскать друзей. Он взошел на корабль, когда над головой уже свистели пули. И взлетел. |
| Alone. | Один. |
| But he had the cubes. | С ним были только кубики. |
| Cunning things. | Изощренные творения. |
| A whole personality encapsulated in a shimmering plastic box a couple of centimeters high. | Личность, заключенная пластиковую коробку. |
| Over the past few years, as the likelihood of Contingency C had grown steadily greater, Voigtland had cubed everyone who was really close to him and stored the cubes aboard the escape ship, just in case. | За последние несколько лет, по мере того, как неизменно росла вероятность "ситуации С", Войтленд сделал записи всех близких ему людей и на всякий случай хранил их на корабле. |
| It took an hour to get yourself cubed; and at the end of it, they had your soul in the box, your motion habits, your speech patterns, your way of thinking, your entire package of standard reactions. |
