标题: 《The River of Time 》作者：- David Brin【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-6-6 07:36 标题: 《The River of Time 》作者：- David Brin【EPUB】 THE RIVER OF TIME DAVID BRIN ?? Table of Contents DESTINY The Crystal Spheres The Loom of Thessaly The 4th Vocation of George Gustaf RECOLLECTION Senses, Three and Six Toujour Voir A Stage of Memory SPECULATION Just A Hint Tank Farm Dynamo Thor Meets Captain America PROPAGATION Lungfish The River of Time DESTINY The Crystal Spheres It was just a luckychance that I had been defrosted when I was—the very year that farprobe 992573-aa4 reported back that it had found a goodstar with a shattered crystalsphere. I was one of only twelve deepspacers alivewarm at the time, so naturally I got to take part in the adventure. At first I knew nothing about it. When the flivver came, I was climbing the flanks of the Sicilian plateau, in the great valley a recent ice age had made of the Mediterranean Sea I had once known. I and five other newly awakened Sleepers had come to camp and tramp through this wonder while we acclimated to the times. We were a motley assortment from various eras, though none was older than I. We had just finished a visit to the once-sunken ruins of Atlantis, and were hiking out on a forest trail under the evening glow of the ringcity high overhead. In the centuries since I had last deepslept, the gleaming, flexisolid belt of habitindustry around our world had grown. In the middle latitudes, night was now a pale thing. Nearer the equator, there was little to distinguish it from day, so glorious was the lightribbon in the sky. Not that night could ever be the same as it had been when my grandfather was a child, even if every work of man were removed. For ever since the twenty-second century there had been the