标题: 《Rejection 》作者：- Robert Reed【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-2 20:00 标题: 《Rejection 》作者：- Robert Reed【EPUB】 Rejection by Robert Reed“Rejection” views “first-contact as dating as courtship as a promise of great but always vague rewardsand as the omnipresent threat of heart-wrenching loss.”Back to Table of ContentsMay 2011Michael never forgot how his mother cried.Really the alien ship wasnt that neat. It looked practically tiny even when people said it was bigger thanthe Moon and it didnt seem all that fast—a speck of light growing only a little brighter each night. But fordays and days the adults couldnt talk about anything else. The aliens were broadcasting they said. Theysaid the aliens were from the galactic union whatever that was and this was going to be the biggest thingin history. The aliens had come to offer people a membership in their union. Whatever that meant. ButMichaels mother believed every good story. She was a dreamy sad woman full of enthusiasms. Sittingdown with her son she promised “Everything is going to change now. Aliens will be visiting us all thetime and well build our own starships and travel far away. Were going to learn wonderful new thingssweetie. Everybodys life is going to get so much better. Longer and healthier and better. You cantimagine all the good things that will happen. Nobody can.”Michael imagined a new Game Boy. He imagined himself throwing the ball all the way from right field tofirst base. And then giving his mind free rein he pictured himself hitting the game-winning home run.“Isnt it a beautiful ship” his mother asked.They