标题: 《Millennium 》作者：- Everett B. Cole 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-12 08:32 标题: 《Millennium 》作者：- Everett B. Cole 【EPUB】 Millennium Author: Everett B. Cole Release Date: March 8, 2008 [EBook #24779] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MILLENNIUM *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note. This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction May 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. MILLENNIUM BY EVERETT B. COLE There are devices a high-level culture could produce that simply don't belong in the hands of incompetents of lower cultural evolution. The finest, and most civilized of tools can be made a menace ... Illustrated by Freas Liewen Konar smiled wryly as he put a battered object on the bench. "Well, here's another piece recovered. Not worth much, I'd say, but here it is." Obviously, it had once been a precisely fabricated piece of equipment. But its identity was almost lost. A hole was torn in the side of the metal box. Knobs were broken away from their shafts. The engraved legends were scored and worn