标题: 《Starfish 》作者：- Peter Watts【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-23 08:13 标题: 《Starfish 》作者：- Peter Watts【EPUB】 Starfish Peter Watts ?? ?? For Susan Oshanek, on the off chance that she's still alive. And for Laurie Channer—who to my unexpectedly good fortune, definitely is. Prelude: Ceratius The abyss should shut you up. Sunlight hasn't touched these waters for a million years. Atmospheres accumulate by the hundreds here, the trenches could swallow a dozen Everests without burping. They say life itself got started in the deep sea. Maybe. It can't have been an easy birth, judging by the life that remains—monstrous things, twisted into nightmare shapes by lightless pressure and sheer chronic starvation. Even here, inside the hull, the abyss weighs on you like the vault of a cathedral. It's no place for trivial loudmouth bullshit. If you speak at all, you keep it down. But these tourists just don't seem to give a shit. Joel Kita's used to hearing a 'scaphe breathe around him, hearing it talk in clicks and hisses. He relies on those sounds; the readouts only confirm what the beast has already told him by the grumbling of its stomach. But