《The Good Neighbours 》作者： - Edgar Pangborn【EPUB】

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Good Neighbors, by Edgar Pangborn This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Good Neighbors Author: Edgar Pangborn Release Date: September 5, 2008 [EBook #26536] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOOD NEIGHBORS *** Produced by Greg Weeks, David Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: This story was published in Galaxy magazine, June 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.74 By EDGAR PANGBORN The Good Neighbors You can't blame an alien for a little inconvenience-as long as he makes up for it! Illustrated by WOOD THE SHIP was sighted a few times, briefly and without a good fix. It was spherical, the estimated diameter about twenty-seven miles, and was in an orbit approximately 3400 miles from the surface of the Earth. No one observed the escape from it.75 The ship itself occasioned some excitement, but back there at the tattered end of the 20th century, what was one visiting spaceship more or less? Others had appeared before, and gone away discouraged-or just not bothering. 3-dimensional TV was coming out of the experimental stage. Soon anyone could have Dora the Doll or the Grandson of Tarzan smack in his own living-room. Besides, it was a hot summer. The first knowledge of the escape came when the region of Seattle suffered an eclipse of the sun, which was not an eclipse but a near shadow, which was not a shadow but a thing. The darkness drifted out of the northern Pacific. It generated