标题: 《A. Bertram Chandler》作者：Cage - 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-2 14:45 标题: 《A. Bertram Chandler》作者：Cage - 【EPUB】 The Cage BERTRAM CHANDLER Imprisonment is always a humiliating experience, no matter how philosophical the prisoner. Imprisonment by one's own kind is bad enough but one can, at least, talk to one's captors, one can make one's wants understood; one can, on occasion, appeal to them man to man. Imprisonment is doubly humiliating when one's captors, in all honesty, treat one as a lower animal. The party from the survey ship could, perhaps, be excused for failing to recognize the survivors from the interstellar liner Lode Star as rational beings. At least two hundred days had passed since their landing on the planet without a name - an unintentional landing made when Lode Star's Ehrenhaft generators, driven far in excess of their normal capacity by a breakdown of the electronic regulator, had flung her far from the regular shipping lanes to an unexplored region of space. Lode Star had landed safely enough; but shortly thereafter (troubles never come singly) her pile had got out of control and her captain had ordered his first mate to evacuate the passengers and those crew members not needed to cope with the emergency, and to get them