标题: 《The Giantess 》作者： - Robert F. Young【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-11-26 11:28 标题: 《The Giantess 》作者： - Robert F. Young【EPUB】 Quite a few of Robert Young's stories have concerned themselves with giantism. Here's a superior addition, a gripping tale of a primitive race who creates a monster in the form of a beautiful giantess, and of a professional hunter brought in to kill her. That's where it begins... The Giantess by ROBERT F. YOUNG Strophe Hill halted at the base of the hogback to re-sling his '02 Weslich. It was a heavy piece, and he did not wish it to encumber him while he was climbing the ridge. This time he slung it diagonally, leaving both arms free. It did not interfere with his overnight pack, nor with the wide belt that supported his canteen, his two-way radio and an extra cartridge clip. In leaving his fly-buggy, he had taken no other weapon: if he couldn't bag Cheida with an '02 Weslich, he couldn't bag her, period. The question arises why, with so formidable an obstacle as the hogback still separating him from her demesne, he should have chosen to go the rest of the way on foot. The answer lay partly in the impossibility of his getting off a good shot from a moving aircraft and partly in his desire to catch her unawares. Were she to see the fly-buggy come down, she would be alerted, and bagging her then would be a ticklish operation. It was true her valley was a vast one and she might at the moment