标题: 《Pied Potter 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-23 12:10 标题: 《Pied Potter 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 A. Bertram Chandler, a long-time contributor to this magazine as well as others in the field, returns with a story about a frightening experiment. The experiment deals with the City of the Future, a city peopled not by human beings, but by rats. The Pied Potter by A. BERTRAM CHANDLER WE'D TALKED ABOUT MOST THINGS that evening; it had been one of those parties where everybody has something to say about something—or everything. Rather surprisingly, quite a few of those present actually knew what they were talking about. Bingham, for example. When Croucher said confidently that Old Mother Nature would take care of the population explosion in her own way, Bingham laughed, but not happily. "There," my wife whispered to me, "is a man who knows too much. But what's he so frightened about?" Bingham overheard her. He said to us, "Yes, I am frightened, and I don't care who knows it. So would you be, if ..." "If what?" demanded Croucher, getting back into the conversation. "If you could watch the experiment