《Rim Preview Of Peril 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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Planet of Ill Repute I WAS WITH COMMODORE Pendray when, in the survey ship Matthew Flinders, he made his big sweep through the Sagittarius Sector. Find us worlds, they had told us when we set out from Earth. Find us worlds rich in metals, rich in timber, rich in animal life, worlds that will give us room and sustenance for our ever-expanding population. Find us worlds—but don't forget The Act. We did not forget The Act. We knew that to do so could mean, at the very least, professional ruin. And there was more to it than the legalities involved. I can say, with some pride, that it was the personnel of the Survey Service who succeeded in impressing upon the Federation Parliament the crying need for such a law. We had seen too many worlds, planets whose people had been, until our coming, living in a state of Edenic innocence, ruined, their indigenous cultures destroyed by both the trader