标题: 《Rim Outsiders 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-5 19:13 标题: 《Rim Outsiders 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 THE OUTSIDERS There's always a backwater area—the sticks—a place that isn't a frontier because it isn't on the way to anywhere, and isn't anything itself. And always some people who live there. In the galaxy — it was The Rim. It wasn't anywhere, and there wasn't any place to go.... Illustrated by Summers BY A. BERTRAM CHANDLER WAS on Stree that star tramp Rimfire, received the news. He was in his day cabin at Calver, master of the the time and he and Jane Calver, who was both his wife and his catering officer, were trying to entertain the large, not unhandsome saurian who acted as Rim Runners' local agent. It had been heavy going; the lizard people of Stree are avid for new knowledge and delight in long winded philosophical discussions. Both Calver and Jane tried hard not to show their relief when there was a sharp rapping at the cabin door. "Excuse me, Treeth," said Calver. "Most certainly, captain," replied the agent. "Doubtless one of your officers has news of great import." "I doubt it," said Jane Calver. "It'll be merely some minor problem of stowage." "Come in!" called Calver. The lizard, who had been sitting on the deck, rose gracefully to