《The Space Roc 》作者：- Robert F. Young【EPUB】

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THE SPACE ROC An unseen monster lurked in waiting ... ROBERT F. YOUNG ? FROST the pilot noticed the unusual topographical formation during the first orbit. He took it to be a moun?tain. However, it was unlike any mountain he'd ever seen: long and relatively low, and so smooth it seemed to have been sanded. Baines, commander of the Transstar, also identified the formation as a mountain when, apprised of it by Frost, he observed it during the sec?ond orbit, along with Grimm the navigator and Roberts the paramed. Whatever it was, it was a welcome relief from the rill-scarred deserts, pocked plateaus and barren sea bot?toms that constituted the rest of the dead world's terrain. Baines decided it rated a closer look, and next time around he ordered Frost to bring the Transstar down. Frost did so, placing the vehicle neatly in the formation's postprandial shadow, a short distance from the base. The Transstar was the first ship of its kind-an exploration vehicle built expressly to discover habitable worlds. The Vegan system had looked promising-ten planets all told, five of which had differentiated at some time during their careers. Four of the lat?ter had proved incapable of support?ing life. This one-the fifth-didn't even have an atmosphere. The odd formation definitely