《MoonGate》作者： - Kate Wilhelm 【EPUB】

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MoonGate by Kate Wilhelm Copyright c1977 1981 Kate Wilhelm First published in Orbit 20 ed. Damon Knight Harper and Row 1977 Fictionwise Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy --------------------------------NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for useby the purchaser. If you did not purchase this ebook directly from Fictionwise.com then you arein violation of copyright law and are subject to severe fines. Please visitwww.fictionwise.com to purchase a legal copy. Fictionwise.com offers a reward for information leading to the conviction of copyright violators of Fictionwiseebooks. --------------------------------WHEN ANYONE asked Victoria what the GoMarCorp actually did sheanswered vaguely quotYou know light bulbs electronics stuff like that.quot When her fatherpressed her she admitted she didnt know much about the company except for her own office inthe claims department of the Mining Division. She always felt that somehow she had disappointedher father that she had failed him. Because the thought and the attendant guilt angered hershe seldom dwelled on it. She had a good apartment nice clothes money enough to save over andabove the shares of stock the company handed out regularly. She was doing all right. At workshe typed up the claims reports on standard forms ran a computer check and pulled cards whereany similarities appeared --same mine same claimants same kinds of claims ... She made up afolder for each claim clipped together all the forms cards correspondence and placed thefolder in her superiors in-basket. What happened to it after that she never knew. Just a job she thought but when it was lunchtime she went to lunch. When it was quittingtime she walked away and gave no more thought to it until eight-thirty the next morning. Mimion the other hand boasted about her great job with the travel agency and never knew if shewould make it to lunch or not. Victoria checked her watch against the wall clock in The