标题: 《Black Destroyer 》作者： - A. E. Van Vogt【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-3-31 21:18 标题: 《Black Destroyer 》作者： - A. E. Van Vogt【EPUB】 BLACK DESTROYER A. E. Van Vogt Astounding Science Fiction, July1939 by A. E. van Vogt (1912-) ON AND ON COEURL PROWLED! The black, moonless, almost starless night yielded reluctantly before a grim reddish dawn that crept up from his left. A vague, dull light it was, that gave no sense of approaching warmth, no comfort, nothing but a cold, diffuse lightness, slowly revealing a nightmare landscape. Black, jagged rock and black, unliving plain took form around him, as a pale-red sun peered at last above the grotesque horizon. It was then Coeurl recognized suddenly that he was on familiar ground. He stopped short. Tenseness flamed along his nerves. His muscles pressed with sudden, unrelenting strength against his bones. His great forelegs—twice as long as his hindlegs—twitched with a shuddering movement that arched every razor-sharp claw. The thick tentacles that sprouted from his shoulders ceased their weaving undulation, and grew taut with anxious alertness. Utterly appalled, he twisted his great cat head from