标题: 《The City At World's End 》作者: - Edmond Hamilton【EPUB】 [打印本页]

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标题: 《The City At World's End 》作者: - Edmond Hamilton【EPUB】
The City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton 1951 Chapter I -- cataclysm Kenniston realized afterward that it was like death. You knew you were going to die someday, but you didn't believe it. He had known that there was danger of the long-dreaded atomic war beginning with a sneak punch, but he hadn't really believed it. Not until that June morning when the missile came down on Middletown. And then there was no time for realization. You don't hear or see a thing that comes faster than sound. One moment, he was striding down Mill Street toward the plant, getting ready to speak to the policeman coming toward him. The next moment, the sky split open. It split wide open, and above the whole town there was a burn and blaze of light so swift, so violent, that it seemed the air itself had burst into instantaneous flame. In that fraction of a second, as the sky flared and the ground heaved wildly under his feet, Kenniston knew that the surprise attack had come, and that the first of the long-feared super-atomic bombs had exploded overhead.... Shock, thought Kenniston, as his mouth crushed against the grimy sidewalk. The shock that keeps




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