标题: 《Dread Empire's Fall Solidarity》作者： - Walter Jon Williams 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-12 21:23 标题: 《Dread Empire's Fall Solidarity》作者： - Walter Jon Williams 【EPUB Solidarity* by Walter John Williams A Novella "Solidarity" features Sula/Gredel, the protagonist first introduced in "Margaux" (_Asimov's_, May 2003), and takes place in the same future as the author's novels _The Praxis_, _The Sundering_, and the forthcoming _Conventions of War_ (Harper Torch). Familiarity with any of the previous works is not necessary for enjoyment of this riveting story. -------Sula dressed in fine Riverside low style for her meeting with Casimir. A bright tight- waisted jacket with fractal patterns, overhung by the wide, floppy collar of her blouse. Pants belled out around platform shoes. Cheap colorful plastic or ceramic jewelry. A tall velvet hat, crushed just so, with one side of the brim held up by a gold pin with an artificial diamond the size of a walnut. "I don't like this," Macnamara said. Sula peered at herself in the mirror, flipped her fingers through her dyed black hair. "I wish there were other choices," she said, "but there aren't." "My lady --" he began. She turned to him. "I'm going," she said. "We need allies." And, because he was under military discipline, he said nothing more, just glowered in his petulant way. The neighborhood