标题: 《Destinys Road 》作者：- Larry Niven【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-7 19:15 标题: 《Destinys Road 》作者：- Larry Niven【EPUB】 Destinys Road Larry Niven Produced by calibre 0.6.40 DESTINYS ROAD Copyright c 1997 by Larry Niven 1 The Caravan We have experience 0f the earlier interstellar colony Camelot. Considerable informationreached Earth from Camelot describing both mistakes and success before communication stopped.Destiny is our second try. Destiny succeed. -Naren Singh Secretary-General United Nations 2427 A.D. 2722 AD. Spiral Town Junior at fourteen had grown tall enough to reach the highest cupboard. She stretched up ontiptoe found the speckles shaker by feel and brought it down. Then she saw what was happeningto the bacon. She shouted quotJemjemjemmyquot Jemmys eleven-year-old mind was all in the world beyond the window. Junior snatched up a pot holder and moved the pan off the burner. The bacon wasnt burned notyet. not quite.Sorryquot Jemmy said without turning. Junior theres a caravan coming.quot You never saw a caravan.quot Junior looked through the long window northeastward quotDust. Maybeits the caravan. Here turn this.quot Jemmy finished cooking the bacon. Junior shook salt and speckles on the eggs sparingly andreturned the shaker to the cupboard. Brenda who should have been stirring the eggs and Thonnyand Greegry and Ronny were all crowded along the long window-the Bloocher familys majortreasure one sheet of glass a meter tall three meters from side to side-to watch what wasafter all only a dust plume. They ate bread and scrambled hens eggs and orange juice. Brenda who was ten fed Jane whowas four months old. Mom and Dad had been up for hours doing farm work. Mom was eating poachedplatyfish eggs. Platyfish were Destiny life their bodies didnt make fat. Mom was trying tolose weight. Jemmy wolfed his breakfast for all the good that did. The rest of the children were finishedtoo. The younger kids squirmed like their chairs were on fire but you couldnt ask Mom and Dadto hurry. They werent exactly dawdling but the kids urgency amused them. The long window was behind Jemmy. If he turned his back on the rest of the family Dad wouldsnap at him. Junior emptied her coffee mug with no sign of