标题: 《Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory》作者： - Robert F. Young 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-12 08:36 标题: 《Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory》作者： - Robert F. Young 【EPUB】 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory T hey called him quotThe Jet-propelled Dutchmanquot but he was neither Dutch nor jet-propelled. Hewas neo-Terran. In common with all interplanetary spaceships of his day his ship employed theLamarre displacement-drive. His name was Nathaniel Drake. Legend has it that whenever he put into port he searched for a certain woman in the hope ofredeeming himself through love but the makers of legends are prone to draw parallels where notrue parallels exist. Nathaniel Drake searched for a certain woman—yes but the woman for whomhe searched was even more of a ghost than he was and it was not love through which he hoped toredeem himself but hate. His story begins in a region of space off the orbital shores of Iago Iago not long after thequotSuez Canalquot sprang its first quotleak.quot In those days the Sirian Satrapy was at the height ofher industrial career. Her globular merchant ships busily plied her interplanetary seas andher Suez Canal freighters left Wayout almost daily for the ravenous marts of Earth. Her planetsprospered and her peoples dwelled in peace and plenty and her politicians lived high on thehog. Only one of her ten ecosphere worlds knew not the blessings of civilization. Thisone—Iago Iago—had been set aside for displaced indigenes in accordance