标题: 《Sense Of Wonder 》作者:- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-11 11:39 标题: 《Sense Of Wonder 》作者:- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 SENSE OF WONDER by A. BERTRAM CHANDLER "Science fiction isn't what it was," said Crowell. "Was it ever?" asked Samuels. "Not very funny," said Whiting. "I agree with Bill. Science fiction isn't what it was—and for that I blame the authors and publishers of factual books on astronautics and the like. If those books had to be written, their sale should have been restricted to science fiction writers only. Our predecessors in the field had it easy. Their bold heroes could leap aboard their spaceships, press a couple of buttons and whiffle off to Proxima Centauri at fourteen times the speed of light. They didn't have to worry about escape velocity, mass ratio and all the rest of it. The Lorenz-Fitzgerald equations meant nothing in their lives—or the lives of their readers. They could populate