《Spacetrack 》作者：- Robert F. Young【EPUB】

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Henning was facing five weeks in space with no company except for a sophisticated computer and no particular interests save one: a yen for playing the horses ... Spacetrackby ROBERT F. YOUNG Henning felt sorry for Castelaine and Burns when he said the usual few words over them andconsigned their bodies to deep space. He also felt sorry for himself. This is no reflection on Henning. He had good cause to feel sorry for himself. The servicesover he hurried up to the Starwagons bridge. quotI need your help ANNquot he said to theAdministrative Navigational Neuroelectro complex that ran the ship and acted as housemother tothe crew. ANN was watching an old movie on the bridge screen. She watched them all the time. She turnedit down and brightened the lights. quotDo you know this is the first time youve ever come nearme Hank Whyquot quotI never needed you for anything beforequot Henning said. She was as remote from the primitivecomputers that partially constituted her ancestry as he was from the pithecanthropus thatpartially constituted his. His visible portions covered the forward and port bulkheads givingthe latter features that if properly put together would have formed a larger-than-life humanface. Her speaker resembled a pair of lips her output tube a nose seen in profile and therewere two centrally located image receivers that functioned as — and looked very much like —eyes. If desired the anthropomorphosis could be carried one step further by interpreting themass of wires that comprised her exterior circuits as golden hair. Next to her nose was a little window that from a distance could have passed for a beauty markand into which data could be inserted or withdrawn and sharing the forward bulkhead were hercorn screen — vacant at the moment — and the starscreen which held a