标题: 《The Satellite of Doom》作者： - D. D. Sharp【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-6-15 07:39 标题: 《The Satellite of Doom》作者： - D. D. Sharp【EPUB】 The Satellite of Doom By D. D. Sharp e r u t c i P While A World Waited Breathlessly The Satellite Went On and On, Repeating Its Circles of Doom! NO idea more startling in the history of our earth has been proposed than that put forward by Hermann Oberth, the German rocket expert. By sending a rocket aloft some four or five hundred miles above the earth and giving it a speed of about 5 miles a second, Herr Oberth states, the rocket will circle the earth until eternity without further expenditure of power!' A terrific idea, filled with the most stupendous possibilities for the people of the earth. It may revolutionize transportation, or warfare; it may even change the whole course our lives. But although it is an idea filled with the most dramatic and adventurous suggestions Mr. Sharp does not want to deal with them fantastically. He has written instead a story of intense realism sticking close to life and truth, with characters that live and breathe. And so he has made this story as vivid and understandable as is humanly possible. CHAPTER I. JUST before they reached the front steps Professor Mullin stopped and touched Clifford on the arm. "There is one man you must watch." "Who?" Clifford asked, still occupied with the crisis ahead of him. "Briggs. Rothberg calls him BB, but he isn't an air gun charge at all. He is buckshot with a full charge of smokeless powder behind him." "Just what do you mean?" Clifford asked with interest awakened. "Briggs is a keen chemist, maker of models for Rothberg's would-be inventors. He is Police Commissioner with a strong political influence and he is the husband of Rothberg's only daughter, ambitious and dangerous. Don't