标题: 《Proper Gander》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-28 20:44 标题: 《Proper Gander》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 THE PROPER GANDER Camouflage does not require that an object be made invisible; merely that, no matter how obvious, it be considered of no importance A. BERTRAM CHANDLER Illustrated by Leo Summers His title of rank in literal translation was Officer-Commanding-Not-Less-Than-Four-And-Not-More Than-Twelve-Spaceships. And his name, also in literal translation, was Worker-in-metals; in the early days of any technological culture craftsmen tend to assume the names of their crafts. We could refer to him, therefore, as Commodore Smith—but that doesn't have a very alien sound to it. "Commodore Pandordikring" conveys the right impression without being too long-winded. He was humanoid, was, this Commodore Pandordikring. He had been born and raised upon an Earth- type planet on which parallel evolution had taken its course. To even more than casual observation he would have looked