标题: 《The Magikkers 》作者：- Terry Dowling 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-4-24 07:36 标题: 《The Magikkers 》作者：- Terry Dowling 【EPUB】 The Magikkers TERRY DOWLING If you had the power to perform one — and only one —act of magic, what would it be? Pick carefully, now . . . One of the best-known and most celebrated Australian writers in any genre, winner of eleven Ditmar Awards and three Aurealis Awards, Terry Dowling ( www.terrydowling . com) made his first sale in 1982, and has since made an international reputation for himself as a writer of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror. Primarily a short-story writer, he is the author of the linked collections Rynosseros, Blue Tyson, Twilight Beach, Worm-wood, An Intimate Knowledge of the Night, and Blackwater Days, as well as An-tique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling, The Man Who Lost Red, and Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear. He has written three computer adventures: Mysteri-ous Journey: Schizm, Mysterious journey II: Chameleon, and Sentinel: Descen-dants in Time, and as editor has produced The Essential Ellison, Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF (with Van Ikin), and The Jack Vance Treasury (with Jonathan Strahan), Born in Sydney, he lives in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia. * * * * T WICE upon a time there was someone named Samuel Raven Pardieu. The first to bear the name was a nineteenth-century blacksmith who tried his hand as a toother during the Napoleonic War. In the morning following the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, while collecting teeth from the newly killed to sell to dentists in the big cities, he was spotted by an English patrol and shot as a looter. The second Samuel Raven Pardieu was that man’s great-to-the-fifth-grandson, and on the morning of 24 May 2006, this second Sam, two weeks past his fourteenth birthday, one full month after enrolling in the special classes at Dessida, was sitting in his favourite spot in all of the sprawling Dessida estate when Bettina Anders found him. “I knew you’d be here,” Bettina said in that special know-it-all tone she had. “Haven’t forgotten what today is?” “Of course not,” Sam said, as if he could, as if he needed to be reminded. Key Interview Day