标题: 《Grimes 036 The Tin Fishes 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-22 16:12 标题: 《Grimes 036 The Tin Fishes 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 The Tin Fishes Commodore John Grimes was proceeding homeward from Tharn the long way around—by way of Groller, Stree and Mellise, by the route that he, in the old Faraway Quest, had opened and charted so many years ago. On all the worlds he was still remembered. On Tharn the spaceport was named after him. In Breardon, the planetary capital of Groller, a huge statue of him stood in Council Square. Grimes had stared up at the heroic monument with some distaste. Surely his ears didn't stand out that much, and surely his habitual expression was not quite so frog-like. He made allowances for the fact that the Grollens, although humanoid, are a batrachian people, but he still inspected himself for a long time in a full-length mirror on his return to the ship in which he was a passenger. And then Rim Kestrel, in which Grimes had taken passage from Tharn, came to Mellise. Mellise was a watery world, fully four-fifths of its surface being covered by the warm, mainly shallow seas. The nearest approach to a continent