《The Far Shore of Time 》作者：- Frederik Pohl【EPUB】

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All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.THE FAR SHORE OF TIME Copyright c 1999 by Frederik PohlAll rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.This book is printed on acid-free paper. Edited by James FrenkelA Tor BookPublished by Tom Doherty Associates LLC175 Fifth AvenueNew York NY 10010Tor Books on the World Wide Web: www.tor.comTor is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates LLC ISBN 0-312-86618-6First Edition: July 1999Printed in the United States of AmericaFor Betty Anne as always PART ONE BEFORE CHAPTER ONE We were actually on our way home when it happened. We didnt have any doubt that that was where we were going and we were boy ready. We had been months and months in the captivity of a weird alien creature from another world the one we called Dopey. He was alien all right. He looked sort of like a large chicken with a kittens face and a peacocks tail and he had kidnapped the lot of us-snatched us right out of the old Starlab astronomical satellite and thrown us into some kind of space-traveling machine that whisked us from hereto some unbelievably distant there in no time at all. And there was where Dopey kept us in one damn miserably uncomfortable prison or another on this unpleasant planet we had never heard of before.That was a truly nasty experience but the way it looked to us at the time it was over Against the odds we had escaped Our chance to get away came when some rival gang of nonhumans these ones called the quotHorchquot invaded our prison planet. In the confusion we fought our way to the matter-transmitter thing and jumped in and were on our way home. I was the last to climb into the machine. . . .And I saw the