《The Last Necronomicon》作者： - Larry Niven 【EPUB】

zaq

The Last Necronomicon," by Larry Niven There has never been anything like the student riots of 1973, before or since. 1973 was the year Ace brought out the paperback version of the NECRONOMICON. By February there were stacks of the slim volume in every bookstore in America. Ballantine immediately brought out an “authorized version” at a slightly higher price. The Ballantine version included a George Bar cover (the reproduction techniques did not satisfy George Barr), a short introduction by the author, the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred (obtained by on of the simpler spells in the Necronomicon), and a much longer introduction by Lin Carter, which bulked out the book considerably. Unfortunately (fortunately?) neither edition was particularly accurate. The Ace version had more misprints; but most of the errors were due to mistranslations accumulated through several languages and several centuries of time. The publishers and distributors could not possibly have guessed how many millions of readers would try to use the spells in the old book. Otherwise they might have taken more care with the more dangerous spells, Or they might have burned the book. By July, every student revolutionary in the U.S.A. must have had a copy. Strange things happened during the Peace Riots at Miskatonic University. Professors disappeared. So did Long Hall, with all of it’s students. Every professor who attended the July 23 faculty meeting was turned into a giant frog. And the students who, on July 29, forceably occupied the Administration Building