《Farewell To the Lotos 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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FAREWELL TO THE LOTOS BY A. BERTRAM CHANDLER ILLUSTRATED BY ORBAN Hoopers Snoopers were the most hated men in the Federation. But they knew they had the highestmission of all — saving the race from the contagious poison of alien paradises and one-wayEdens. Altair VI was a rotten world to be stranded on. It was damp and dismal and the parkthat surrounded the bench was filled with shrubs that looked more animal than vegetable withwarty stems fleshy black leaves and blood red flowers. There was even a faint smell like thatof carrion in the murky atmosphere that made the cigarette in Peter Quinns mouth seem tainted. He shifted his lanky six-foot body on the bench and tried to close his pale blue eyes to thesights while he sucked in on the smoke. He might as well enjoy it he realized bitterly therewere only two other cigarettes in the case hed just returned to the pocket of his wrinkleduniform. When they were gone. . . Well the Service would have nothing to do with him. From now on all his past record would beblotted out and hed be listed as just another Second Pilot turned drunkard whod overstayedhis shore leave and missed his ship. He hadnt been drunk though hed picked up a bit of aglow. And hed kept his eye on the clock in the girls apartment. But either it had beentinkered with or it stopped as he found when he happened to look at his wristwatch. Thenthered been a wild ride to the spaceport only to find that the Lady May had already blastedoff