标题: 《Shadow World 》作者：- Clifford D Simak【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-12 08:14 标题: 《Shadow World 》作者：- Clifford D Simak【EPUB】 SHADOW WORLD Clifford D. Simak Anyone who has kept up with the latest developments in the study of the origins of Life on earth is aware of the controversy between those who say that life was an incredible accident that could never happen again, and those who say that, considering the almost-infinite variety of chances for matter to combine and evolve, it seems inevitable that life of some sort -- probably including intelligent varieties -- would appear on many of the millions of planets with suitable environmental conditions that (probably) exist in the galaxy. I opt for the latter "those." With Clifford Simak -- and a very sizable number of "respectable" scientists, too -- I believe that life is not a unique, earthbound experiment, but rather that it is semi-universal, and that it can take semi-endless forms. In following that belief, Simak has described a possible type of humanoid on the verdant planet of a distant star, and has shown it performing in a thoroughly believable, immensely advanced, and slightly silly civilization -- which we never even see! Read on, no questions, please, and find out how he does it. I rolled out early to put in an hour or so of work on my sector model before Greasy got breakfast slopped together. When I came out of my tent, Benny, my Shadow, was waiting for me. Some of the other Shadows also were standing around, waiting for their humans, and the whole thing, if one stopped