《Special Knowledge 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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A good officer on a modern merchant marine ship has a great deal of highly specialized knowledge. But if that man somehow found himself an officer on a merchant spaceship, his special knowledge would seem pretty useless—ordinarily. But not that trip! Special Knowledge by A. BERTRAM CHANDLER Illustrated by Orban "Everything happens —on my watch" thought Quentin Dale bitterly. If the converter had to give trouble he would far sooner it happened on his off-duty hours. Then he could go aft to give a hand. He was weak, he knew, on magnetronics—and feared that the Board's examiners would soon discover this when he sat for his Master Astronaut's certificate. The Second Pilot slumped in his chair and gloomily, not without apprehension, regarded the power meters, whose needles seemed afflicted by St. Vitus' Dance. The Old Man would know what was wrong, he reflected. If he could see what the Old Man was doing about it he would learn far more than all the textbooks in creation could ever teach him. He— A sudden