标题: 《Fleuve Red 》作者：- Robert F. Young【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-17 20:25 标题: 《Fleuve Red 》作者：- Robert F. Young【EPUB】 FLEUVE RED ROBERT F. YOUNG Robert Young returns with a sequel to his quotThe Earth Booksquot last issue inwhich the author again follows his Muse to an unlikely world . . . ILLUSTRATED by RICHARD OLSEN WELL here I am on Alpheratz VI. quotBe sure and take your umbrellaquot my Muse told me just before I left Earth. quotOn Alpheratz VI it rainsthree hundred and sixty-four days out of the year.quot As usual she was exaggerating. I would estimate Alpheratz VIs rainfall to be about that of Earths.The temperature and the topography arent much different either. Immediately after my arrival I chose a commodious country named Vespucha to live in and acolorful city named Serice to write in. Then I set about learning the Vespuchan language. In this I wasassisted by a beautiful native girl named Wenda and it is she to whom I am indebted for my presentprowess in the conjugation of Vespuchan verbs and the diagraming of Vespuchan sentences. Not only did Wenda help me learn the language she got me a room in a pleasant inn and kept mecompany between lessons. She is a tall willowy girl with chestnut hair and luminous gray eyes. I owe hera great deal. Almost as much as I owe my Muse. I hadnt been on Alpheratz VI very long before I became acquainted with the brome. This uniqueherbivore is endowed by nature with circular appendages instead of feet and it rolls instead of running. Itis covered with curious fuzz-like hair that reflects light and is all one color—generally blue or red oryellow although green ones arent unusual. Broad and low-slung it has three eyes two of which areround phosphorescent and located just above the fore-appendages and the third of which isrectangular exceedingly large and located just beyond the long snout forming the front part of theslightly slanted hump that comprises the creatures back. The brome is used by the Vespuchans both as a beast of burden and as a means of transportation.Sometimes they ride on its back but most of the time they ride on carriages attached to its rearend bymeans of a light wooden pole. The carriages are unique in their own right. Theyre constructed principallyof wood