标题: 《Reflex 》作者：- Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-2 19:56 标题: 《Reflex 》作者：- Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle【EPUB】 Reflex Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Produced by calibre 0.6.40 REFLEX by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Any damn fool can die for his country. General George S. Patton. 3017 AD The Union Republic War Cruiser Defiant lay nearly motionless in space a half billion kilometers from Beta Hortensi. She turned slowly about her long axis. Stars flowed endlessly upward with the spin of the ship, as if Defiant were falling through the universe. Captain Herb Colvin saw them as a battle map, infinitely dangerous. Defiant hung above him in the viewport, its enormous mass ready to fall on him and crush him, but after years in space he hardly noticed. Hastily constructed and thrown into space, armed as an interstellar cruiser but without the bulky Alderson Effect engines which could send her between the stars, Defiant had been assigned to guard the approaches to New Chicago from raids by the Empire. The Republic's main fleet was on the other side of Beta Hortensi, awaiting an attack they were sure would come from that quarter. The path Defiant guarded sprang from a red dwarf star four tenths of a light year distant. The tramline had never been plotted. Few within New Chicago's government believed the Empire had the capability to find it, and fewer thought they would try. Colvin strode across his