《 Griffin's Story 》作者： - Gould_ Steven【EPUB】

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Steven Gould TOR??B style='color:black;background-color:#A0FFFF'>3 ATOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES Copyright ?? 2007 by Steven C. Gould Edited by Beth Meacham ISBN–13: 978–0–7653–1827–5 ISBN–10: 0–7653–1827–X Content Tor Books by Steven Gould Jumper Wildside Helm Blind Waves Reflex Jumper: Griffin 's Story Chapter OneThe Empty Quarter Every couple of months Dad and I would climb in the car and he'd drive out through the suburbs, out past the small towns, past the farms and ranches, until we came to what I called the Empty Quarter . I saw a BBC special on it once–I thought they said Ruby Kallie, but now I know they were saying the Rub al–Khali–the "quarter of emptiness." It's the sea of sand that makes up a fifth of the Arabian Peninsula, but for us it could mean Death Valley, or the Gila wilderness, or the Spanish Pyrenees, and once, it was an island in the Bay of Siam that we had to sail a small boat to. But it had to be empty–it had to be without people. That was the only safe place where I could do it, where I could practice. "We just can't chance it, Griff. You want to do this, this is the only way." We were living in the United States then, five thousand miles from England , in San Diego , in a garage flat at the north end of Balboa Park , but when