标题: 《Song 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-19 08:38 标题: 《Song 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 THE SONG by A. Bertram Chandler Illustrated by ORBAN Meteors might account for the loss of a couple of ships — but not ten. And the Thunderchild would be the eleventh, unless... GANYMEDE QUEEN was the tenth. Ganymede Queen, of the Jovian Mail Lines, was homeward bound from Port Europa, via Ceres City, when she vanished—the tenth ship to disappear in the Asteroid Belt. Star Seeker—owned by the Interplanetary Survey Commission, the second ship to push out as far as the Belt— was the first. It was assumed at the time that she had come into collision with one of the myraid fragments of planetary debris infesting the Ecliptic between Mars and Jupiter. Years later—when the search for wreckage was at last abandoned—it was assumed that her Captain and crew, smitten by the madness not uncommon in those relatively early days of space travel, had decided to abandon their assignment and had driven their ship out to Jupiter or Saturn, had crashed on either of the two giant planets—or, fuel exhausted, had fallen