《Planet Run 》作者： - Keith Laumer, Gordon R. Dickson【EPUB】

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PLANET RUN with Gordon R. Dickson Chapter One The sun was warm on his face. Through his closed eyelids it gleamed a hot orange—like asunrise fog on a world called Flamme long ago. And Dulcia the first Dulcia came toward himsmiling through the wreaths of mist . . . Something tickled his cheek he brushed at it. Damnedflowerflies Hed have to start up the repellor field didnt like the damned thing. Made amans bones itch like a couple of hours under high R de-leading tube linings . . . The gloryof his memory dimmed. A grim little note of uneasiness struck discordantly through the dream.There had been something he had been trying to put out of his mind lately . . . The ticklecame again and the dream vanished. His eyes flew open and he squinted up at a slim blondlong-legged young girl in a brief pink sunsuit leaning over his garden chair with a longfeathery grass stem in her hand. quotDammit Dulcie youre getting too old to go around like thatquot he growled. quotNo Im not Grandpa Im just getting old enough. You should have seen Senator Bartholomewsface when I went to the door—quot quotIs that fool back againquot Captain Henry closed his eyes. But the feeling of uneasiness wasstronger suddenly. Fat Bartholomew—Senator Bartholomew now—was not quite a fool. Or at leasthe had not been a fool forty years ago as a young man. Henry already aging at that time hadalmost liked him then—sometimes. Now of course he had become a quotSenatorquot—and taken up the prissy modern manners of movement andspeech that went with the political image. Still . . . the uneasiness moved stronger than ever in Henry. quotSend him on his way girlquot