标题: 《Miss Katy Three 》作者:- Robert F. Young 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-12 08:46 标题: 《Miss Katy Three 》作者:- Robert F. Young 【EPUB】 miss katy three by . . . Robert F. Young He had lived all of his young manhood in a gray world—cut off from joy and beauty. Then, in an android's eyes, paradise flamed. An editor has to maintain a certain measure of critical sobriety even when he has an impulse to stand up and shout. But for once we stoutly refuse to be restrained by any ordinary yardstick. You can't be analytical about a story like this, with its high poetry; and the singing flame of its human warmth, and its great and memorable beauty. Ray Bradbury once moved us in much the same way, with a story of robots who were very nearly human in a fashion strangely wondrous. Accept, Robert Young, Bradburian laurels! The problem of stewardesses dates back to the middle of the twentieth century when flight was confined to atmospheric levels. Tradition insisted that they be beautiful, but time would not cooperate. They grew old like everybody else, and since they could not be prematurely retired, it was inevitable that tradition should suffer. At first, space flight presented the same problem, but a parallel technological development soon resolved it. It was only natural that the first space-line stewardesses