标题: 《[Casher O'Neill] On the Sand Planet 》作者：- Cordwainer Smith【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-3-22 21:09 标题: 《[Casher O'Neill] On the Sand Planet 》作者：- Cordwainer Smith【EPU On the Sand Planet This is the story of the sand planet itself, Mizzer, which had lost all hope when the tyrant Wedder imposed the reign of terror and virtue. And its liberator, Casher O'Neill of whom strange things were told, from the day of blood in which he fled from his native city of Kaheer, until he came back to end the shedding of blood for all the rest of his years. Everywhere that Casher had gone, he had had only one thought in his mind deliverance of his home country from the tyrants whom he himself had let slip into power when they had conspired against his uncle, the unspeakable Kuraf. He never forgot, whether waking or sleeping. He never forgot Kaheer itself along the First Nile, where the horses raced on the turf with the sand nearby. He never forgot the blue skies of his home and the great dunes of the desert between one Nile and the others. He remembered the freedom of a planet built and dedicated to freedom. He never forgot that the price of blood is blood, that the price of freedom is fighting, that the risk of fighting is death. But he was not a fool. He was willing, if he had to, to risk his own death, but he wanted odds on the battle which would not merely snare him home, like a rabbit to be caught in a steel trap, by the police of the dictator Wedder. And then, he met the solution of his crusade without knowing it at first. He had come to the end of all things, all problems, all worries. He had also come to the end of all ordinary hope. He met T'ruth. Now her subtle powers belonged to Casher O'Neill, to do with as he pleased. It pleased him to return to Mizzer, to enter Kaheer itself, and to confront Wedder. Why should he not come? It was his home and he thirsted for revenge