标题: 《Sassinak 》作者：- Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-9 08:29 标题: 《Sassinak 》作者：- Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon 【EPUB】 Anne McCaffrey - Planet Pirates 4 Sassinak McCaffrey, Anne & Moon, Elizabeth ?? 1990 BOOK ONE CHAPTER One By the time anyone noticed that the carrier was overdue, no one cared. Celebrations had started two local days before, when the last crawler train came in from Zeebin. Sassinak, along with the rest of her middle school, had met that train, helped offload the canisters of personal- grade cargo, and then wandered through the crowded streets. Last year she'd been too young - barely - for such freedom. Even now, she flinched a little from the noise and confusion. The City tripled in population for the week or so of celebration when the ore carriers came in. Every farmer, miner, crawler-train tech or engineer - everyone who possibly could, and some who shouldn't have - came to The City. It almost seemed to deserve the name, with crowds bustling between the rows of one-story prefab buildings that served the young colony as housing, storage, and manufacturing space. Sassinak could pretend she was on the outskirts of a real city, and the taller dome and blockhouse of the original settlement, could, with imagination, stand for the great soaring buildings she hoped one day to visit, on the worlds she'd heard about in school. She caught sight of a school patch ahead of her,