标题: 《Journey to Nowhere 》作者： - Richard S. Shaver【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-6-24 07:49 标题: 《Journey to Nowhere 》作者： - Richard S. Shaver【EPUB】 Journey To Nowhere By Richard S. Shaver Her voice came out of Space with seductive beauty—but it became a shriek of horror when two spaceships sailed to… nowhere! An A\NN/A Preservation Edition. Notes JINKS did not know she was a monster. When she was first born, she did not seem very different from any of the other monstrous growths of quivering protoplasm about her. The others began to take note of her presence, however, after she learned to move about, for she belonged to a race of beings whose members never did much about motion, though they were able to pull loose at times. These beings reproduced by the simplest of all means, that of budding. Jinks was revolutionary in that, too. She budded, all right, but her buds were not single and at the rate of one every four years; they came off her in scores, and each was quite as prodigiously active as herself! Soon Jinks’ descendants numbered in the hundreds, and every one of them answered Jinks’ thinking as the servant answers the master. Jinks grew, became adult, and began to spend a great deal of her time out in the open, looking up at the mysterious stars. As she grew still older, and those stationary members of her race who remembered her unusual beginnings died off and were replaced by their own buds, Jinks became a law unto herself. She took up the already ancient science of wave communication, and step by step constructed the most tremendous aggregations of apparatus ever known to her race. Few of them had ever moved about enough to ever accomplish much with all their ancient knowledge. This moving about, this building and swift activity, this turmoil of decision without endless meditation—was frowned upon severely by the huddled groups of unmoving ancestors. But Jinks and her precious mob of sons and daughters only laughed. They had already learned to accept the original society of unmoving thinkers as just part of the