标题: 《Assassination Of Faustino Malarte 》作者：- Paul J. McAuley【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-3-29 19:32 标题: 《Assassination Of Faustino Malarte 》作者：- Paul J. McAuley【EPUB】 The Assassination of Faustino Malarte by Paul McAuley Paul McAuley's most recent story for us, “The Passenger,” appeared in our March 2002 issue. His latest novels are The Secret of Life (nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke and British Science Fiction Association Awards) and Whole Wide World. Mr. McAuley lives in North London. [Back to Table of Contents] On the day the assassin was programmed to kill him, Colonel Faustino Malarte woke as usual from a dream of falling. He was alone in his sleeping niche. The woman was gone, his phone was ringing, his heart and head were pounding, and his legs were tangled in bloodstained spidersilk sheets—perhaps that was why, in his dream, he had been bound hand and foot as with swooning slowness he tumbled past the ice cliffs of Camelot Chasma, the sun a chill diamond pinned to the center of the black sky, deep shadows far below. His mother, who had a reputation for riddling auguries and omens from dreams, said that dreams of falling were about death; that if in your dream