标题: 《Leviathan》作者： - Simon Brown【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-7-6 08:44 标题: 《Leviathan》作者： - Simon Brown【EPUB】 Leviathan SIMON BROWN Simon Brown’s latest book, Rival’s Son , the second book in the Chronicles of Kydan trilogy, was published by PanMacmillan Australia in 2005 and DAW in the US in early 2006. He has a collection of short stories called Troy coming out from Ticonderoga Publications in April 2006, and the last Kydan book, Daughter of Independence , coming out from PanMacmillan in July. He lives on the New South Wales south coast with his wife Alison and children Edlyn and Fynn. About ‘Leviathan’, he writes: “This story is a result of serendipity and the imagination of two men who like their monsters big and in rubber, Robert Hood and Robin Pen. Although ‘Leviathan’ did not end up being the type of story they could use, if not for them and their generous encouragement it would never have been written.” * * * * Like all fish stories, this one’s a whopper. Unlike all other fish stories, this one starts thirty-five thousand feet in the air. * * * * Gerard Francis McVitty Over the Pacific Ocean, a Boeing 707 en route to Honolulu from Sydney, just past the Gilbert Islands and a whisker short of the International Date Line, suddenly encountered the sort of engine trouble an engineer would call ‘catastrophic’. Not too many minutes later, bits of 707 and people and suitcases and loose clothing were floating down onto the ocean like confetti at a wedding. One of those bits comprised a large man’s overcoat, puffed out like a parachute, and Gerard Francis McVitty, ten years old, hanging onto the coat’s arms and tail for dear life. Looking down between his feet, Gerard saw blue - dimpled, sun-reflecting - and precious little else. Except. Except for a