《The Mist 》作者：- King_ Stephen【EPUB】

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THE PURITY PLOT ?? Volume six of The classic Family dAlembert series ?? By E.E. Doc Smith With Stephen Goldin?? ?? Chapter 1 The Glasseye Gang ?? The planet Glasseye was named for its appearance from space. Tuan Ho the scoutship pilot who discovered it remembered his initial impression in an interview with Imperial Newsworks Reelzine: quotI came out of subspace and there it was staring straight at mea large blue green ball with that one dark continent in the center. It looked for all the universe like a glass eye being displayed on a piece of black velvet with the stars as a background to lend effect to the scene.quot ?? Since that discovery in 2374 the planet had been well explored and colonized and its name took on an extra significance. The one major continent was found to contain rich deposits of a fine silicate mineral called fargerite after its discoverer-that occurred nowhere else in the galaxy furthermore this silicate produced some of the finest glass ever made. quotGlasseye glassquot became renowned throughout the Empire and no one with any pretensions to culture would feel his collection of objets dart complete without several pieces. Producing blowing and exporting the glass became the planets leading industries and the entire world thrived basking in the glow of its reputation. So abundant was the fargerite that the Glasseyers even used it as a construction material for building their cities. When combined and fired in the proper way it became a substance stronger than steel with the added advantage that it was more easily recyclable. If one tired of it in one form one could melt it down and reshape it into something else with a minimum of trouble. ?? Glasseye cities therefore looked like fairy towers of crystalline perfection. Glass needles rose into the sky their walls refracting the sunlight into a million rainbow patterns. Glass latticeworks connected the city in a transportation system of small high-speed shuttles that whisked people wherever they chose to go in a matter of minutes. The cities presented an ever-changing face as old portions

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