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

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Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction 91 Pa Protactinium 231.0359 Forge Star The skimmers had been a self-altering and space-faring race for so many ages that not even they knew what their original bodies had looked like. Their current forms were as large as any human spacecraft, and performed the same functions. So the human delegate was actually standing inside the skimmer's body, and the approximately humanoid form that rose to meet her was a mere proxy. "The answer is no," it said without preamble. "Admittedly our propulsion system is vastly superior to your own. But for that very reason, it is in our best interests to retain exclusivity." "I don't want it," Adrienne Wong-Heppworth said. She was confined to an exo-support suit these days, but she was still very much in charge of Dragon Lady Enterprises. "Certain other corporations may choose to dilute their mission by diversifying into physics, starship drives, industrial espionage, and all that. But it's a mug's game. Not for me." "Then why are you here?" "Out there ?" The Dragon