标题: 《The Burning City》作者： - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-10-21 08:13 标题: 《The Burning City》作者： - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle【EPUB】 Golden Road - 01 Larry Niven Produced by calibre 0.6.40 Golden Road - 01 - The Burning City Larry Niven For Roberta and Marilyn quotIt is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds themto the dogs. Its us. Only us.quot From Watchmen by Alan Moore PREFACE There was fire on Earth before the fire god came. There has always been fire. What Yangin-Atepgave to humankind was madness. Yangin-Ateps children will play with fire even after they burntheir fingers. It was only Yangin-Ateps joke then and for unmeasured time after. But a greater god calleddown the great cold and Yangin-Ateps joke came into its own. In the icy north people couldnot survive unless the fire god favored one of their number. Cautious men and women never burned themselves twice but their people died of the cold.Someone must tend the fire during the terrible winters. Twelve thousand years before the birthof Christ when most of the gods had gone mythical and magic was fading from the world Yangin-Ateps gift remained.Book One- Whandall Placehold PART ONE - CHILDHOOD Chapter 1 They burned the city when Whandall Placehold was two years old and again when he was seven. Atseven he saw and understood more. The women waited with the children in the courtyard through aday and a night and another day. The day sky was black and red. The night sky glowed red andorange dazzling and strange. Across the street a granary burned like a huge torch. Strangerstrying to fight the fire made shadow pictures. The Placehold men came home with what theyd gathered: shells clothing cookware furniturejewelry magical items a cauldron that would heat up by itself. The excitement was infectious.Men and women paired off and fought over the pairings. And Pothefit went out again with Resalet but only Resalet came back. Afterward Whandall wentwith the other boys to watch the loggers cut-ling redwoods for the rebuilding. The forest cupped Teps Town