《Collector's Item 》作者：- Robert F. Young【EPUB】

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collectors item by . . . Robert F. Young Very trivial things can go into the weaving of a nest. The human race for instance— Weve often wondered what would happen if Robert Young should cease to bea lyrically intense writer for a story or two forsaking the bright poetic worlds ofMISS KATY THREE and THE FIRST SWEET SLEEP OF NIGHT to becomedispassionately analytical on a cosmic scale. Now we know Hed chill us to thebone by setting two squixes to brooding over a never-to-be born Earth exactly ashe has done here. And thrill us too—with the liveliest kind of entertainment. THE CONDENSATION of the histories of ten thousand races into a text concise enough to fit intoa single volume had been a task of unprecedented proportions. There had been times when the GalacticHistorian had doubted whether even his renowned abilities were up to the assignment that the GalacticBoard of Education had so lightly tossed his way times when he had thrown up his hands—all five ofthem—in despair. But at last the completed manuscript lay before him on his desk with nothing but thefinal reading remaining be-tween it and publication. The Galactic Historian repeated-ly wiped his brows as he turned the pages. It was a warm nighteven for Mixxx Seven. Now and then a tired breeze struggled down from the hills and limped across thelow-lands to the Galactic University buildings. It crept into the Galactic Historians study via the opendoor and out again via the open win-dows fingering the manuscript each time it passed but doing nothingwhatsoever about the temperature. The manuscript was something more than a hammered-down his-tory of galactic achievement. It wasthe ultimate document. The two and seventy thousand jarring texts that it summarized had beensys-tematically destroyed one by one after the Galactic