标题: 《The Clapping Hands of God 》作者：- Michael F. Flynn【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-10-26 09:37 标题: 《The Clapping Hands of God 》作者：- Michael F. Flynn【EPUB】 The Clapping Hands of God Michael F. Flynn How much explorers learn about a world–and what they can do about what they find–depends on how they come to it. To a world unnamed by humans, humans came. The gate swung open on a pleasant mountain glade, where the weather could be cool without being cold, and which lay cupped in a high valley below the tree line and far from the gray smudges of the cities on the plains below. This isolation was by happy chance and not by wise choice. Gates swung where God willed, and man could but submit. Once, one had opened in the midst of a grim fortress full of armed and hostile things and what befell the team that crossed no man knows, for the gatekeeper sealed it forever. Here, the humans erected a fine pavilion of gay cloth among mighty growths that might be called trees and colorful splays that might be called flowers, although they were neither trees nor flowers exactly. The motley of the fabric clashed with the surrounding vegetation. The colors were off. They aped the complexion of a different world and seemed here a little out of place. But that was acceptable. The humans