标题: 《The Descent of Anansi》作者： - Larry Niven【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-11-5 11:33 标题: 《The Descent of Anansi》作者： - Larry Niven【EPUB】 The Descent of Anansi Larry Niven Produced by calibre 0.6.40 The Descent of Anansi by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes DRAMATIS PERSONAE Members of the Brasil Techimetal Electromotores: Jorge Xavier Vice-President Lucio Giorgi Engineering Edson da Silva Finance Djalma Costa Industrial Relations Luisa receptionist BTE building Castellon President Eric Burgess Captain Brasilia Ricardo Diaz Copilot Brasilia Correro Psychologist amp Missions Specialist Brasilia UMAF personnel: Resa Mansur Hassan Ali Hoveida Falling Angels Enterprises personnel: Fleming President Miss Ellinshaw Air Quality Control Janet De Camp Pilot Anansi Thomas De Camp Ion drive technician Gabriel Mrs. Kelly Flemings personal secretary Marion Guiness Copilot Anansi Dr. Dexter Stonecypher Metallurgist Tim Connors Ion drive technician and pilot Michael Oyama Construction personnel: Takayuki Yamada Retsudo Oyama One - HIGH FINANCE On October 16 1970 the Comsat Board of Directors declared a dividend of 12.5 cents per share.This was approximately one million dollars and represented a milestone: they first money madeby the general public from a space enterprise. It took a little over six years for Comsat to go from initial start-up to a dividend-payingoperation. The Brazil Techimetal-Electromotores building was the second tallest in all of Sao Paulo aglistening golden spire that sprouted from a cluster of drab five-story structures anegotistical giant among dwarves. Xavier parked his Mercedes in the underground parking structure and took Yamada up to thethirty-first floor in a public elevator. There they changed to a security elevator. Jorge Xavier stood perfectly erect and nearly a foot taller than his companion. His face wasdark his hair thick and fluffy and prematurely white he was altogether a tailors dream. Nowhis generous mouth was drawn into a slender line his brows wrinkled in concentration. Heasked-in English he had learned that Yamadas Portuguese was poor-quotYou are sure of theamountquot quotAbsolutely. Oyama Construction wants the cable at all costs. The Trans-Korea bridge will maketheir reputation.quot Xavier slammed the edge of his palm into the elevator wall swearing in Portuguese. quotI know Iknow. It is why we must have it. With the Stonecypher Cable in our hands we can force Oyamaconstruction into a merger. Such a merger would combine the raw materials and manpoweravailable to BTE with the technical resources and world respectability of Oyama Construction.With terms favorable to beth sides such a merger could be-quot he groped for words. quotI do notcare what it