《Solaris》作者： - Stanislaw Lem【EPUB】

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SolarisStanislaw Lem1961 第 1 页 共 157 页 http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原版英语阅读网translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox 1970Contents CHAPTER 01 The Arrival CHAPTER 02 The Solarists CHAPTER 03 The Visitors CHAPTER 04 Sartorius CHAPTER 05 Rheya CHAPTER 06 quotThe Little Apocryphaquot CHAPTER 07 The Conference CHAPTER 08 The Monsters CHAPTER 09 The Liquid Oxygen CHAPTER 10 Conversation CHAPTER 11 The Thinkers CHAPTER 12 The Dreams CHAPTER 13 Victory CHAPTER 14 The Old Mimoid1 THE ARRIVALAt 19.00 hours ships time I made my way to the launching bay. The men around the shaftstood aside to let me pass and I climbed down into the capsule.Inside the narrow cockpit there was scarcely room to move. I attached the hose to the valve onmy spacesuit and it inflated rapidly. From then on I was incapable of making the smallestmovement. There I stood or rather hung suspended enveloped in my pneumatic suit and yoke 第 2 页 共 157 页 http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原版英语阅读网to the metal hull.I looked up through the transparent canopy I could see a smooth polished wall and far aboveModdards head leaning over the top of the shaft. He vanished and suddenly I was plunged indarkness: the heavy protective cone had been lowered into place. Eight times I heard the humof the electric motors which turned the screws followed by the hiss of the shock-absorbers. Asmy eyes grew accustomed to the dark I could see the luminous circle of the solitary dial.A voice echoed in my headphones:quotReady KelvinquotquotReady Moddardquot I answered.quotDont worry about a thing. The Station will pick you up in flight. Have a good tripquotThere was a grinding noise and the capsule swayed. My muscles tensed in spite of myself butthere was no further noise or movement.quotWhen is lift-offquot As I asked I noticed a rustling outside like a shower of fine sand.quotYoure on your way Kelvin. Good luckquot Moddards voice sounded as close as before.A wide slit opened at eye-level