标题: 《Leonid Skies》作者： - Carl Frederick 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-7-5 08:46 标题: 《Leonid Skies》作者： - Carl Frederick 【EPUB】 LEONID SKIES by Carl Frederick As a boy, Carl Frederick’s favorite time was winter where, in the early darkness, the stars came out before his mandatory bedtime. In other seasons, he spent many hours in his local planetarium where he’d achieved something of the status of a mascot. His early addiction to the night sky likely led to his becoming a theoretical physicist. Carl regards his second story for Asimov’s as an homage to the awe of the night and to the firmament-obsession of his younger self. * * * * Rising huge from the coastal island, the dome looked like a bug’s reticulated eye. Mark Frey gazed through the windshield at the far-off structure, the seven-foot perimeter wall supporting a transparent hemispherical dome some quarter of a mile in diameter. At this distance away, five or six miles with water intervening, Mark more recalled to mind than actually saw the dome’s thin spiderweb of support beams cradling countless squares of Hyperglass. The material, which could be electrically commanded from transparent to opaque, had been developed for domes on the Moon. His hands involuntarily tightened their grip on the steering wheel. Domes on