《Getaway world 》作者：- Edward Elmer Doc Smith & Stephen Goldin【EPUB】

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GETAWAY WORLD ?? Volume four of The classic Family dAlembert series ?? By E.E. Doc Smith With Stephen Goldin?? CHAPTER 1 A Chat with Lady A ?? The young woman looked vastly out of place standing in the line of people waiting to file through the debarkation gate and receive billeting assignments. Tall and lithe beautiful and dignified she looked like a tulip growing in a cactus garden. The rest of her queue mates were the scum of a dozen worlds virtually all of them male and female alike were graduates of the roughest schools in the Galaxy-the imperial prison system. They were tough and for the most part ill educated one could tell their planets of origin by the brand of slang they spoke and the choice of obscenities with which they peppered their conversation. ?? In contrast the young woman was striking in her cleanliness. Her clothing fitted her with fidelity and had been fashioned by one of Earths finest designers. Her eyes had a deep look of intelligence to them and her long black hair was neatly trimmed. Her stance the way she tilted her head the expression of cool self-assurance-all testified to the fact that this woman was something special born to wealth if not to the nobility itself. ?? She stood patiently in the corridor that had once been painted white but was now scratched and faded to a dismal shade of gray. Her eyes stared straight ahead at the tables where the computer programmers were feeding the information on peoples cards into