标题: 《The Frayed String On The Stretched Forefinger Of Time》作者: - Lloyd Biggl... [打印本页]

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标题: 《The Frayed String On The Stretched Forefinger Of Time》作者: - Lloyd Biggl...
The Frayed String On The Stretched Forefinger Of Time by Lloyd Biggie, Jr. Here’s a delightful blending of science fiction and mystery writing: a story about a future where murderers are stopped by the police before they commit their crimes, and of one potential murderer who poses a problem no one had foreseen. As science provides new ways of lengthening life, so does it offer new ways of ending it: sic transit in excelsis. An A\NN/A Preservation Edition. Notes Inspector-Commander J. Harwell Graham sat at the center of his complex police web like a massive, bespectacled spider, alertly poised for frenzied action at the faintest electronic quiver—but Graham’s actions were mental, and he thought his prey into entangling cocoons fashioned of their own intended misdeeds. The inspector-commander was a brain that plugged itself into the world during duty hours, and then, because he found defiance of the law in all men, withdrew defeated. He finished his afternoon dictation with an intimidating glance at the clock. The dictowriter spat the final memorandum onto his desk. Graham scrutinized it, signed his name, fed it back to the machine for copying and distribution





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