标题: 《Battle on Venus 》作者：- William F. Temple【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-3-30 13:26 标题: 《Battle on Venus 》作者：- William F. Temple【EPUB】 Battle On Venus by William F. Temple 3S XHTML edition 1.0 click for scan notes and proofing history contents |1|2|3|4|5| THE ASTRONAUTS WERE EVERYONE’S TARGETS Earth’s first spaceship to Venus landed amidst a war where strange weapons like the archaic ones used in the old wars on Earth in the Twentieth Century hurled shells at each other. Rut this war had lasted over a thousand years—and by remote control! George Starkey had to find a way to stop the war before the little group of astronauts became early casualties. But how? Where were the headquarters of the contending sides and how do you tell a robot tank that you’re neutral? But George had an ally, a Venusian girl who thought stealing was virtuous—and, unknowingly, he had something else that turned out to be the most valuable substance on Venus—a box of chocolate bars! Turn this book over for second complete novel (proofers note: The Suns Of Amara available as a separate ebook) WILLIAM F. TEMPLE is a London-born Englishman, who was publishing science- fiction long before it became a respectable word. His youthful friends and fellow-authors were Arthur C. Clarke, John Wyndham, and John Christopher. Before World War II the Temple-Clarke flat was the headquarters of the British Interplanetary Society (Temple edited its Journal) . Then, space travel was regarded as beyond the lunatic fringe. Now, the B.I.S is as respectable as science-fiction. Temple still lives in hopes of becoming respectable also. He has had numerous science-fiction stories published on both