标题: 《Outpost Cyborg de Milo》作者: - Mike Resnick【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-15 20:41 标题: 《Outpost Cyborg de Milo》作者: - Mike Resnick【EPUB】 The Cyborg de Milo* * * * * Her real name (said Achmed of Alphard) --or, rather, her _original_ name --was Venus Delmonico, and back when I first met her, she was as pretty and polite and refined a girl as you'd ever want to know. She had passed the entrance exam for Aristotle --that's the university planet, you know --and she was specializing in something terribly esoteric. I can't remember exactly what it was --Poetry of the 3rd Century of the Galactic Era, perhaps. Anyway, she was supposed to already be such an expert that there were only two people in the whole of the Monarchy who could teach her anything more, and both of them were professors on Aristotle. But three weeks before she was scheduled to leave for Aristotle, thieves broke into her parents' home. Her father tried to stop them and was killed for his trouble. Her mother fled, screaming for help, and they killed her too. Then, to cover