标题: 《Check Elastic Before Jumping》作者： - Neal Asher【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-3 15:16 标题: 《Check Elastic Before Jumping》作者： - Neal Asher【EPUB】 Check elastic before jumping Neal Asher Paralysis of the senses, temporarily. Standing before the museum display case, I listened to the cracking of stun rifles outside as CCM — Combined Corporate Military — engaged with the few government troops who could be bothered to fight. "It's a crappy world," said someone standing nearby. "Oh really," I said, peering into the case, and remembering my recent hospital visit, which had occurred just a few days before a crowd of some 500,000 drove everyone out of the EU Parliament buildings and then burnt them to the ground... It felt like I was using the scroll wheel on an old-style computer mouse to work my way down the list of news items, then it felt like I clicked the mouse button to select a news item — National Health Service software having some way to go to catch up with the new interactive displays and virtualities. Of course, I hadn't moved a finger since that moment I decided to flout the EU-wide health-and-safety ban on urban bungee jumping and miscalculated the length of my elastic My shattered skull and snapped spine had left me unable to do more than blink and swallow. A temporary