《Jupiter Trap 》作者：- Ross Rocklynne【EPUB】

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JUPITER TRAP A nasty planet — so big and unconcerned with the rest of the system —— A Novelette by Ross Rocklynne D EVEREL had had seven hours’ start on Colbie; it had taken the officer of the law that long to float down to Vulcan’s surface after the action of expanding gases within the tiny planet’s interior had vomited him miles above it. In those few hours Deverel had had the opportunity to vanish into any direction; yet Colbie, using a canny process of elimination, tracked the outlaw to Ganymede. Not, however, that it did him any good. Colbie was a good man to have in the interplanetary police force, a smart man; but he lacked the ability to let his imagination run rampant. Deverel was different; behind his smiling, cynical eyes was a mind that worked with the swiftness of lightning, a mind that never admitted defeat. Or perhaps it was simply that the forces of nature allied themselves with him, gave him hints of secrets that Colbie was denied—as in the Jupiter trap, for instance. Colbie didn’t know that Deverel was on Ganymede; he merely suspected it, and fervently hoped that it was so. He knew that all the minor planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars—were