《False Dawn 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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FALSE DAWN BY A. BERTRAM CHANDLER A tale of very long ago, before men had descended (sic) from the “apes,” and a time when the Moon was not an airless, scarred globe in the night skies. Angam Matangu stood with his two mates on the flat roof of his house on the outskirts of Darnala. The summer air was heavy with the scent of the night-flowering shrubs that grew in profusion in the garden below, and flaunted their pallid, faintly luminous blossoms from the plot in the center of the wide expanse of roof. The stars hung low in the warm sky. To the east was a growing, spreading pallor—a light wan and ghostly in contrast to the live, pulsing stars, the sparse, ruddy-burning lamps irregularly spaced along the thoroughfares of the city. “The dawn,” said Evanee, the younger of the women. Linith laughed shortly, scornfully. This was not the first time that she had arisen early with her mate, left her bed to stand here on the rooftop to await the rising of Loana. She knew that the eastern light would fade again, that with its passing what