标题: 《Jimmy Guang's House Of Gladmech 》作者： - Alex Irvine【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-6-23 13:33 标题: 《Jimmy Guang's House Of Gladmech 》作者： - Alex Irvine【EPUB】 Jimmy Guangs House of Gladmech by Alex Irvine Jimmy Guang Hamid smoked tobacco cigars until he found out that vat-grown lungs were stillprone to immune-rejection problems and that the vat wranglers hadnt made much headway on whatthey called amongst themselves the Larynx Problem. Then he went over to herb-and-marijuanapanatelas anxious to maintain his image as a Golden Age wheeler-dealer but not so anxious fora long convalescence or opportunistic infection following a double pulmonary. But he was inKyrgyzstan anyway a long way from organ vats and the only people there who cared about hisimage were the Russians. The Russians were the only people who cared about lots of things inthe brutalized city of Osh a still-proud prominence in the tank-tracked cluster-bombedspider-mined cruise-missiled ruins of what had once a hundred years or so before been thesouthern part of the Soviet Empire. Now Kyrgyzstan was a member of the Islamist Federation aloose group of non-Arab Muslim states and the Russians fought with the IF out of concern overconcentration of power in Central Asia but mostly out of sheer terror of what would happen iftheir soldiers were ever allowed to come home. Jimmy Guang was not a deeply religious manalthough hed been raised a Muslim and inhabited the belief the way he inhabited his tastes infood or music. He took no sides between the IF and the Russians and the Chinese who hoveredlike a storm waiting to break from the East. He had come to these wars thinking he could makemoney. He came to the city of Osh on the flanks of the Ferghana Valley a sliver of warm greenpointing up into the windswept expanse of the Tien Shan ranges. Once Osh had been a major stopalong the Silk Road. Alexander the Great had slept there. Mohammed had prayed there. Now therewasnt much left after sixty years of sporadic war but it was close to Tashkent without beingtoo close and the last thing a foreign entrepreneur wanted was to be too close