标题: 《Marooned in Realtime 》作者：- Vernor Vinge【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-11 10:03 标题: 《Marooned in Realtime 》作者：- Vernor Vinge【EPUB】 MAROONED IN REALTIME VERNOR VINGE I am grateful to: Mike Gannis for many super ideas related to this story; Sara Baase, John L. Carroll, Howard Davidson, Jinn Frenkel, Dipak Gupta, Jay Hill, Sharon Jarvis, and Joan D. Vinge for all their help and suggestions. Other people have created zoologies and/or geographies of the future. Though they are different from what is described in this story, they are wonderfully interesting: Dougal Dixon, After Man, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1981. Christopher Scotese and Alfred Ziegler, as described in "The Shape of Tomorrow," by Dennis Overbye, Discover. November, 1982, pp. 20-25. ONE On the day of the big rescue, Wil Brierson took a walk on the beach. Surely this was one afternoon when it would be totally empty. The sky was clear, but the usual sea mist kept visibility to a few kilometers. The beach, the low dunes, the sea-all were closed in by faint haze that seemed centered on his viewpoint. Wil moped along just beyond the waves, where the water soaked the sand flat and cool. His ninety-kilo tread left perfect barefoot images trailing behind. Wil ignored the sea birds that skirled about. He walked head down, watching the water ooze up around his toes at every step. A humid breeze carried the smell of seaweed, sharp and pleasant. Every