标题: 《Periodic Table Actinium》作者： - Michael Swanwick【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-18 08:25 标题: 《Periodic Table Actinium》作者： - Michael Swanwick【EPUB】 Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction 89 Ac Actinium 227.0278 The Case of the Purloined Actinium The freight-carrier had been in vacuum dock for nine Greenwich days. In twelve G-hours, it would depart, regardless of local law. It carried the wealth of worlds. It wasn't going to be delayed because a few tons of stolen actinium were hidden somewhere within its vast corpus. So a Sherlock was downloaded into a welding robody, and his Watson into another. "This isn't going to be easy," the Watson observed when he saw the eighty-mile-long ship. "Logic, old friend! Deductive reasoning can solve any problem," said the Sherlock. "We'll start by interviewing the crew." But none of the robot crew had seen anything out of the ordinary. The ship had been serviced by the usual