《Cold Testing》作者： - Eric Brown【EPUB】

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COLD TESTING by Eric Brown Eric Brown lives near Cambridge, England, in a seventeenth-century thatched cottage. He's written over thirty books and a hundred short stories, and has twice won the British Science Fiction Award for best short story. Eric reviews science fiction for the London Guardian . His latest novel is Xenopath (Solaris 2009), and his website can be found at: www.ericbrown.co.uk . His first story for Asimov's takes an icy look at the various forms of... I phased A Long Way From Home from the void and brought us down on Nova Charon for a period of cold testing. "Why the CT now?" Karrie my engineer asked, staring through the viewscreen at the outermost planet in the Antares system. Stark, ice-grey craters and serried peaks stretched across the horizon beyond the concrete apron of the spaceport. "I'm considering taking the ship to the Epsilon Centauri system," I told her. "All the planets there are way beyond the Goldilocks Limit." Karrie stared at me. "They're inhabited by Shlocken," she said. "You're not thinking