标题: 《The repairmen of Cyclops 》作者：- John Brunner 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-6-4 07:40 标题: 《The repairmen of Cyclops 》作者：- John Brunner 【EPUB】 Repairmen of Cyclops ?? by ?? John Brunner ?? ?? ?? The sky rang with the reverberation of fierce white ?? sunlight like the interior of a blue drum. Wind hot as the ?? breath of a furnace teased the silver ocean into ripples ?? and the ripples shattered the suns image into ablazing ?? pathway of diamond fragments. Itching with sweat ??aching with tension Justin Kolb had to narrow his eyes ?? even behind his wholeface visor because the response- ?? limit of the glass was exceeded if he turned his head ?? towards that glistening track over the water and the ?? opacity curve took a sudden dive towards complete ?? blankness. ?? Maddeningly it was to sunward that he had caught ?? the first wing-glints. ?? He had expected that the sight of the Jacksons buz- ?? zards would crystallise his formless tension into the old ?? familiar excitement re-unite mind and body into the effi- ?? cient combination as much weapon as person which was ?? Juson Kolb at peak operational efficiency. He had been ?? trying for so long to get away on his own like this on ?? the hunters trail which now had to make do for his old ?? preferred pastimes that the strain of habituation to wait- ?? ing had soured his keen anticipation of the chase. ?? Only till I see the buzzards he had promised himself. ?? And then ?? But hed seen the buzzards at last when he had half ?? decided he was too far north even at this season two ??days past midsummer and the instant of thrill had ?? beenan instant. Now he was back in the slough of ?? dreary awareness which had plagued him the whole of ?? yesterday and the whole of the day before. He was con- ?? scious of suffocating heat of blinding brightness of ?? prickling perspiration of cramp from keeping the skim- ?? mer level and aligned despite the tag of the waves. His ?? hands were slippery on the controls and the hard butt of ?? his harpoon-gan seemed to take up twice as much room ?? on the skimmers deck as it usually did. ?? Briefly he shut his eyes wishing with all his force that ?? somehow time could turn back and he could be free to ?? return to space. ?? Cyclops though was a relatively poor world. It could ?? not support luxury spaceflight. Out there a man had to ?? be productivemining asteroids servicing solar power ?? relays doing some clock-around job with the absolute ?? concentration of machinery. ?? What the hell am I now A gigolo. ?? The thought passed. True or not he was