《The Boarder》作者： - Alexander Jablokov 【EPUB】

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The Boarder by Alexander Jablokov We start off this issue with a story that isn’t actually science fiction or fantasy. Nonetheless, we think you’ll like “The Boarder.” This piece of historical fiction fits in with the growing body of works like Andy Duncan’s “The Chief Designer” and Ellen Klages’s “The Green Glass Sea” that view the scientific changes of the Twentieth Century through a lens of fiction. Mr. Jablokov, who is of Russian descent, assures us that the story is wholly fictional; in fact, he says that in researching the story, he had to find a vintage issue of Playboy, just so he could look at the ads. * * * * A couple of years after I was born, my parents bought the house where they still live. Before they even moved in, they had arranged for a boarder to rent the small room in the basement. They had decided, in a fairly formal way, that, as Russians with extra rooms, they should take in boarders. Neither had ever had an extra room. So they put lace curtains on the basement windows and installed a bathroom