标题: 《Outpost Untimely Death Of Lance Sterling 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-16 10:56 标题: 《Outpost Untimely Death Of Lance Sterling 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB】 *The Untimely Death of +++Lance Sterling+++ * * * * * To begin with (said Nicodemus Mayflower), he wasn't born +++Lance Sterling+++. His real name was Mortimer Smurch. I once asked him why he changed it, and he asked me if I'd lay down my life for a man named Mortimer Smurch, and I thought about it for a few minutes and never asked him again. By the time he was nineteen he was dedicated to freeing oppressed people, human or alien, wherever he found them. He knew it would be dangerous, so that's when he decided to wear the mask. * * * * "If he didn't want to call attention to himself, why did he wear that shining silver outfit with the cape?" asked Max. "You want to hear this or not?" said Mayflower. "All right, all right, I won't interrupt again," said Max. "Until the next time," predicted Baker. * * * * I didn't mind the mask so much (continued Mayflower). It was the sword that bothered me. I mean, what sane man uses a sword when his opponents have burners and screechers and pulse guns? But after