《Periodic Table Hydrogen 》作者：- Michael Swanwick 【EPUB】

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Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction 1 H Hydrogen 1.00197 The Hindenburg Time agents like to rendezvous at famous disasters. It goes with the personality. They don't trust you to remember the date otherwise. Which was why I met Ivan at Lakehurst Naval Air Base, on the day the Hindenburg was due to burst into flame. We were in the CO's office?don't think that wasn't hard to arrange?when he gave his report. "Herr Eidenbenz wouldn't listen to reason. So I left my briefcase under his couch and made an anonymous call to the Gestapo. He died under interrogation three days later." Ivan grinned incandescently. "No atom bomb for Uncle Adolph." "Good work." I'm Jewish myself, and if it were up to me, Hitler would be strangled at birth. But we'd tried that once, and only made matters worse. Now we rely on men like Ivan, one-in-a- billion talents who are able to remember multiple pasts, and so guide events toward the desired future. "Have a drink." I poured us each some of the commander's bourbon. Through the window I could see the great zeppelin, so large