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Fifty Degrees Below
Kin Stanley Robinson
FIFTY DEGREES BELOW
A Bantam Spectra Book / November 2005
Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the
author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2005 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Bantam Books, the rooster colophon, Spectra, and the portrayal of a boxed "s" are
trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Robinson, Kim Stanley.
Fifty degrees below / Kim Stanley Robinson.
p. cm.
ISBN-10:0-553-80312-3
ISBN-13:978-0-553-80312-9
1. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. I. Tide.
PS3568.02893F54 2005
813'.54—dc22 2005048074
Printed in the United States of America
Published simultaneously in Canada
www.bantamdell.com
10 987654321
BVG
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ONE Primate In Forest
TWO Abrupt Climate Change
THREE Back To Khembalung
FOUR Is There A Technical Solution?
FIVE Autumn In New York
SIX Optimodal
SEVEN The Cold Snap
EIGHT Always Generous
NINE Leap Before You Look
TEN Primavera Porteño
I
PRIMATE IN FOREST
Nobody likes Washington, D. C. Even the people who love it don't like it. Climate atrocious,
traffic worse: an ordinary midsized gridlocked American city, in which the plump white federal
buildings make no real difference. Or rather they bring all the politicians and tourists, the lobbyists
and diplomats and refugees and all the others who come from somewhere else, often for suspect
reasons, and thereafter spend their time clogging the streets and hogging the show, talking endlessly
about their nonexistent city on a hill while ignoring the actual city they are in. The bad taste of all
that hypocrisy can't be washed away even by the food and drink of a million very fine restaurants.
Nobastion of the world government, locked vault of the World Bank, fortress headquarters of the
world police; Rome, in the age of bread and circusesno one can like that.
So naturally when the great flood washed over the city, wreaking havoc and leaving the capital
spluttering in the livid heat of a wet and bedraggled May, the stated reactions were varied, but the
underlying subtext often went something like this: HA HA HA. For there were many people
around the world who felt that justice had somehow been served. Capital of the world, thoroughly
trashed: who wouldn't love it?
Of course the usual things were said by the usual parties. Disaster area, emergency relief, danger
of epidemic, immediate restoration, pride of the nation, etc. Indeed, as capital of the world, the
president was firm in his insistence that it was everyone's patriotic duty to support rebuilding,
demonstrating a brave and stalwart response to what he called "this act of climactic terrorism."
"From now on," the president continued, "we are at a state of war with nature. We will work until
we have made this city even more like it was than before."
But truth to tell, ever since the Reagan era the conservative (or dominant) wing of the
Republican party had been coming to Washington explicitly to destroy the federal government.
They had talked about "starving the beast," but flooding would be fine if it came to that; they were
flexible, it was results that counted. And how could the federal government continue to burden
ordinary Americans when its center of operations was devastated? Why, it would have to struggle
just to get back to normal! Obviously the flood was a punishment for daring to tax income and
pretending to be a secular nation. One couldn't help thinking of Sodom and Gomorrah, the
prophecies specified in the Book of Revelation, and so on.
Meanwhile, those on the opposite end of the political spectrum likewise did not shed very many
tears over the disaster. As a blow to the heart of the galactic imperium it was a hard thing to regret.
It might impede the ruling caste for a while, might make them acknowledge, perhaps, that their
economic system had changed the climate, and that this was only the first of many catastrophic
consequences. If Washington was denied now that it was begging for help, that was only what it
had always done to its environmental victims in the past. Nature bats lastpoetic justicelevel
playing fieldreap what you sowrich arrogant bastardsand so on.
Thus the flood brought pleasure to both sides of the aisle. And in the days that followed Congress
made it clear in their votes, if not in their words, that they were not going to appropriate anything
like the amount of money it would take to clean up the mess. They said it had to be done; they
ordered it done; but they did not fund it.
The city therefore had to pin its hopes on either the beggared District of Columbia, which already
knew all there was to know about unfunded mandates from Congress, to the extent that for years
their license plates had proclaimed "Taxation Without Representation"; or on the federal agencies
specifically charged with disaster relief, like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers and others
that could be expected to help in the ordinary course of their missions (and budgets).
Experts from these agencies tried to explain that the flood did not have a moral meaning, that it
was merely a practical problem in city management, which had to be solved as a simple matter of
public health, safety, and convenience. The Potomac had ballooned into a temporary lake of about a
thousand square miles; it had lasted no more than a week, but in that time inflicted great damage to
the infrastructure. Much of the public part of the city was trashed. Rock Creek had torn out its
banks, and the Mall was covered by mud; the Tidal Basin was now part of the river again, with the
Jefferson Memorial standing in the shallows of the current. Many streets were blocked with debris;
worse, in transport terms, many Metro tunnels had flooded, and would take months to repair.
Alexandria was wrecked. Most of the region's bridges were knocked out or suspect. The power grid
was uncertain, the sewage system likewise; epidemic disease was a distinct possibility.
Given all this, certain repairs simply had to be made, and many were the calls for full restoration.
But whether these calls were greeted with genuine agreement, Tartuffian assent, stony indifference,
or gloating opposition, the result was the same: not enough money was appropriated to complete the
job.
Only the essentials were dealt with. Necessary infrastructure, sure, almost; and of course the
nationally famous buildings were cleaned up, the Mall replanted with grass and new cherry trees;
the Vietnam Memorial excavated, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials recaptured from their island
state. Congress debated a proposal to leave the highwater mark of greenish mud on the sides of the
Washington Monument, as a flood-height record and a reminder of what could happen. But few
wanted such a reminder, and in the end they rejected the idea. The stone of the great plinth was
steam-cleaned, and around it the Mall began to look as if the flood had never happened. Elsewhere in
the city, however....
IT WAS NOT A GOOD TIME to have to look for a place to live.
And yet this was just what Frank Vanderwal had to do. He had leased his apartment
for a year, covering the time he had planned to work for the National Science
Foundation; then he had agreed to stay on. Now, only a month after the flood, his
apartment had to be turned over to its owner, a State Department foreign-service person
he had never met, returning from a stint in Brazil. So he had to find someplace else.
No doubt the decision to stay had been a really bad idea.
This thought had weighed on him as he searched for a new apartment, and as a result
he had not persevered as diligently as he ought to have. Very little was available in any
case, and everything on offer was prohibitively expensive. Thousands of people had
been drawn to D.C. by a flood that had also destroyed thousands of residences, and
damaged thousands more beyond immediate repair and reoccupation. It was a real
seller's market, and rents shot up accordingly.
Many of the places Frank had looked at were also physically repulsive in the extreme,
including some that had been flooded and not entirely cleaned up: the bottom of the
barrel, still coated with sludge. The low point in this regard came in one semibasement
hole in Alexandria, a tiny dark place barred for safety at the door and the single high
window, so that it looked like a prison for troglodytes; and two thousand a month. After
that Frank's will to hunt was gone.
Now the day of reckoning had come. He had cleared out and cleaned up, the owner
was due home that night, and Frank had nowhere to go.
It was a strange sensation. He sat at the kitchen counter in the dusk, strewn with the
various sections of the Post. The "Apartments for Rent" section was less than a column
long, and Frank had learned enough of its code by now to know that it held nothing for
him. More interesting had been an article in the day's Metro section about Rock Creek
Park. Officially closed due to severe flood damage, it was apparently too large for the
overextended National Park Service to be able to enforce the edict. As a result the park
had become something of a no-man's land, "a return to wilderness," as the article had
put it.
Frank surveyed the apartment. It held no more memories for him than a hotel room,
as he had done nothing but sleep there. That was all he had needed out of a home, his
life proper having been put on hold until his return to San Diego. Now, well... it was like
some kind of premature resuscitation, on a voyage between the stars. Time to wake up,
time to leave the deep freeze and find out where he was.
He got up and went down to his car.
Out to the Beltway to circle north and then east, past the elongated Mormon temple
and the great overpass graffiti referencing it: go home dorothy! Get off on Wisconsin,
drive in toward the city. There was no particular reason for him to visit this part of town.
Of course the Quiblers lived over here, but that couldn't be it.
He kept thinking: Homeless person, homeless person. You are a homeless person. A
song from Paul Simon's Graceland came to him, the one where one of the South African
groups kept singing, Homeless; homeless, Da da da, da da da da da da ... something like,
Midnight come, and then you wanna go home. Or maybe it was a Zulu phrase. Or maybe, as
he seemed to hear now: Homeless; homeless; he go down to find another home.
Something like that. He came to the intersection at the Bethesda Metro stop, and
suddenly it occurred to him why he might be there. Of course—this was where he had
met the woman in the elevator. They had gotten stuck together coming up from the
Metro: alone together underground, minute after minute, until after a long talk they had
started kissing, much to Frank's surprise. And then when the repair team had arrived
and they were let out, the woman had disappeared without Frank learning anything
about her, even her name. It made his heart pound just to remember it. Up there on the
sidewalk to the right, beyond the red light—there stood the very elevator box they had
emerged from. And then she had appeared to him again, on a boat in the Potomac
during the height of the great flood. He had called her boat on his cell phone, and she
had answered, had said, "I'll call. I don't know when."
The red light turned green. She had not called and yet here he was, driving back to
where they had met as if he might catch sight of her. Maybe he had even been thinking
that if he found her, he would have a place to stay.
That was silly: an example of magical thinking at its most unrealistic. And he had to
admit that in the past couple of weeks he had been looking for apartments in this area.
So it was not just an isolated impulse, but a pattern of behavior.
Just past the intersection he turned into the Hyatt driveway. A valet approached and
Frank said, "Do you know if there are any rooms available here?"
"Not if you don't got a reservation."
Frank hurried into the lobby to check anyway. A receptionist shook her head: no
vacancies. She wasn't aware of the situation at any other hotel. The ones in their chain
were full all over the metropolitan area.
Frank got back in his car and drove onto Wisconsin heading south, peering at the
elevator kiosk when he passed it. She had given a fake name on the Metro forms they
had been asked to fill out. She would not be there now.
Down Wisconsin, past the Quiblers' house a couple of blocks over to the right. That
was what had brought him to this part of town, on the night he and the woman got stuck
in the elevator. Anna Quibler, one of his colleagues at NSF, had hosted a party for the
Khembali ambassador, who had given a lecture at NSF earlier that day. A nice party. An
excess of reason is itself a form of madness, the old ambassador had said to Frank. Frank
was still pondering what that meant, and if it were true, how he might act on it.
But he couldn't visit Anna and her family now. Showing up unannounced, with no
place to go—it would have been pitiful.
He drove on. Homeless, homelesshe go down to find another home.
Chevy Chase looked relatively untouched by the flood. There was a giant hotel above
Dupont Circle, the Hilton; he drove down Wisconsin and Massachusetts and turned up
Florida to it, already feeling like he was wasting his time. There would be no rooms
available.
There weren't. Homeless, homeless. Midnight come, and blah blah blah blah blahhhh.
He drove up Connecticut Avenue, completely without a plan. Near the entrance to
the National Zoo damage from the flood suddenly became obvious, in the form of a
mud-based slurry of trash and branches covering the sidewalks and staining the
storefronts. Just north of the zoo, traffic stopped to allow the passage of a backhoe. Street
repairs by night, in the usual way. Harsh blue spotlights glared on a scene like
something out of Soviet cinema, giant machines dwarfing a cityscape.
Impatiently Frank turned right onto a side street. He found an empty parking spot on
one of the residential streets east of Connecticut, parked in it.
He got out and walked back to the clean-up scene. It was still about 90 degrees out,
and tropically humid. A strong smell of mud and rotting vegetation evoked the tropics,
or Atlantis after the flood. Yes, he was feeling a bit apocalyptic. He was in the end time
of something, there was no denying it. Home-less; home-less.
A Spanish restaurant caught his eye. He went over to look at the menu in the window.
Tapas. He went in, sat down and ordered. Excellent food, as always. D.C. could almost
always be relied on for that. Surely it must be the great restaurant city of the world.
He finished his meal, left the restaurant and wandered the streets, feeling better. He
had been hungry before, and had mistaken that for anxiety. Things were not so bad.
He passed his car but walked on east toward Rock Creek Park, remembering the
article in the Post. A return to wilderness.
At Broad Branch Road Frank came to the park's boundary. There was no one visible
in any direction. It was dark under the trees on the other side of the road; the yellow
streetlights behind him illuminated nothing beyond the first wall of leaves.
He crossed the street and walked into the forest.
The flood's vegetable stench was strong. Frank proceeded slowly; if there had been
any trail here before it was gone now, replaced by windrows of branches and trash, and
an uneven deposition of mud. The rootballs of toppled trees splayed up dimly, and
snags caught at his feet. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness he came to feel that
everything was very slightly illuminated, mostly no doubt by the luminous city cloud
that chinked every gap in the black canopy.
He heard a rustle, then a voice. Without thought he slipped behind a large tree and
froze there, heart pounding.
Two voices were arguing, one of them drunk.
"Why you buy this shit?"
"Hey you never buy nothing. You need to give some, man."
The two passed by and continued down the slope to the east, their voices rasping
through the trees. Homeless, homeless. Their voices had reminded Frank of the scruffy
guys in fatigues who hung out around Dupont Circle.
Frank didn't want to deal with any such people. He was annoyed; he wanted to be out
in a pure wilderness, empty in the way his mountains out west were empty. Instead,
harsh laughter nicotined through the trees like hatchet strokes. "Ha ha ha harrrrrr." There
went the neighborhood.
He slipped off in a different direction, down through windrows of detritus, then over
hardened mud between trees. Branches clicked damply underfoot. It got steeper than he
thought it would, and he stepped sideways to keep from slipping.
Then he heard another sound, quieter than the voices. A soft rustle and a creak, then a
faint crack from the forest below and ahead. Something moving.
Frank froze. The hair on the back of his neck was standing up. Whatever it was, it
sounded big. The article in the Post had mentioned that many of the animals from the
National Zoo had not yet been recaptured. All had been let loose just before the zoo was
inundated, to give them a chance of surviving.
Some had drowned anyway; most had been recovered afterward; but not all. Frank
couldn't remember if any species in particular had been named in the article as being
still at large. It was a big park of course. Possibly a jaguar had been mentioned.
He tried to meld into the tree he was leaning against.
Whatever it was below him snapped a branch just a few trees away. It sniffed; almost
a snort. It was big, no doubt about it.
Frank could no longer hold his breath, but he found that if he let his mouth hang
open, he could breathe without a sound. The tock of his heartbeat in the soft membrane
at the back of his throat must surely be more a feeling than a sound. Most animals relied
on scent anyway, and there was nothing he could do about his scent. A thought that
could reduce one's muscles to jelly.
The creature had paused. It huffed. A musky odor that wafted by was almost like the
smell of the flood detritus. His heart tocked like Captain Hook's alarm clock.
A slow scrape, as of shoulder against bark. Another branch click. A distant car horn.
The smell now resembled damp fur. Another crunch of leaf and twig, farther down the
slope.
When he heard nothing more, and felt that he was alone again, he beat a retreat uphill
and west, back to the streets of the city. It was frustrating, because now he was intrigued,
and wanted to explore the park further. But he didn't want to end up one of those urban
fools who ignored the reality of wild animals and then got chomped. Whatever that had
been down there, it was big. Best to be prudent, and return another time.
After the gloom of the park, all Connecticut seemed as garishly illuminated as the
work site down the street. Walking back to his car, Frank thought that the neighborhood
resembled one of the more handsome Victorian districts of San Francisco. It was late
now, the night finally cooling off. He could drive all night and never find a room.
He stood before his car. The Honda's passenger seat tilted back like a little recliner.
The nearest streetlight was down at the corner.
He opened the passenger door, moved the seat all the way back, lowered it, slipped
in and sat down. He closed the door, lay back, stretched out. After a while he turned on
his side and fell into an uneasy sleep.
For an hour or two. Then passing footsteps woke him. Anyone could see him if they
looked. They might tap the window to see if he was okay. He would have to claim to be
a visiting reporter, unable to find a room—very close to the truth, like all the best lies.
He could claim to be anyone really. Out here he was not bound to his real story.
He lay awake, uncomfortable in the seat, pretty sure he would not be able to fall back
asleep; then he was lightly under, dreaming about the woman in the elevator. A part of
his mind became aware that this was unusual, and he fought to stay submerged despite
that realization. He was speaking to her about something urgent. Her face was so clear,
it had imprinted so vividly: passionate and amused in the elevator, grave and distant on
the boat in the flood. He wasn't sure he liked what she was telling him. Just call me, he
insisted. Give me that call and we can work it out.
Then the noise of a distant siren hauled him up, sweaty and unhappy. He lay there a
while longer, thinking about the woman's face. Once in high school he had made out
with a girl in a little car like this one, in which the laid-back seat had allowed them
somehow to lie on each other. He wanted her. He wanted to find her. From the boat she
had said she would call. I don't know how long, she had said. Maybe that meant long.
He would just have to wait. Unless he could figure out some new way to hunt for her.
The sky was lightening. Now he definitely wouldn't be able to fall back asleep. With a
groan he heaved himself up, got out of the car.
He stood on the sidewalk, feeling wasted. The sky was a velvet gray, seeming darker
than it had in the middle of the night. The air was cool. He walked east again, back into
the park.
Dew polished the thick gray foliage. In the diffuse low light the wet leaves looked
like a forest of wax. Frank slowed down. He saw what looked like a trail, perhaps an
animal trail. There were lots of deer in the park, the article had said. He could hear the
sound of Rock Creek, a burbling that as he descended overwhelmed the city sounds, the
perpetual grumble of trucking. The sky was lightening fast, and what had seemed to
him cloud cover was revealed as a clear pale sky. Dim greens began to flush the grays.
The air was still cool.
It turned out that in this area Rock Creek ran at the bottom of a fairly steep ravine, and
the flood had torn the sidewalls away in places, as he saw when he came to a sudden
drop-off. Below him, bare sandstone extruded roots like ripped wiring. He circled above
the drop, dodging between low trees.
From a little clearing he could suddenly see downstream. The flood in spate had torn
the Little canyon clear. Everything that had been down there before— Beach Road, the
small bridges and buildings, the ranger station, the picnic areas—all of it was gone,
leaving a raw zone of bare sandstone, flat mud, thrashed grass, downed timber, and
stubborn trees that were either clinging to life or dead in place. Many trees had been
knocked over and yet held on by a few roots, forming living snags piled high with mud
and trash. A larger snag downstream looked like a giant beaver dam, creating a
dirt-brown pond.
The sky stood big and blue overhead, a tall dome that seemed to rise as the day
lightened. Muddy Rock Creek burbled noisily down its course, spilling from one foamy
brown stretch to the next.
At the far edge of the pond a heron stepped, its knees bending backward. Long body,
long legs, long neck, long head, long beak. A great blue heron, Frank guessed, though
this one's dark gray feathers looked more green than blue. A kind of dinosaur. And
indeed nothing could have looked more pterodactylic. Two hundred million years.
Sunlight blazed green at the tops of the trees across the ravine. Frank and the heron
stood attentively, listening to unseen smaller birds whose wild twittering now filled the
air. The heron's head cocked to one side. For a time everything was as still as bronze.
Then beyond the twittering came a different sound, fluid and clear, rising like a siren,
like a hook in the flesh:
Oooooooooooooooooop!
National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, basement parking lot, seven a.m. A
primate sitting in his car, thinking things over. As one of the editors of The Journal of
Sociobiology, Frank was very much aware of the origins of their species. The third chimp,
as Diamond had put it. Now he thought: chimps sleep outdoors. Bonobos sleep
outdoors.
Housing was ultimately an ergonomic problem. What did he really need? His
belongings were here in the car, or upstairs in his office, or in boxes at UCSD, or in
storage units in Encinitas, California, or down the road in Arlington, Virginia. The fact
that stuff was in storage showed how much it really mattered. By and large he was free
of worldly things. At age forty-three he no longer needed them. That felt a little strange,
actually, but not necessarily bad. Did it feel good? It was hard to tell. It simply felt
strange.
He got out of his car and took the elevator to the third floor, where there was a little
exercise room, with a men's room off its entryway that included showers. In his shoulder
bag he carried his laptop, his cell phone, his bathroom kit, and a change of clothes. The
three shower stalls stood behind white curtains, near an area with benches and lockers.
Beyond it extended the room containing toilets, urinals, and a counter of sinks under a
long mirror.
Frank knew the place, having showered and changed in it many times after runs at
lunch with Edgardo and Kenzo and Bob and the others. Now he surveyed it with a new
regard. It was as he remembered: an adequate bathroom, public but serviceable.
He undressed and got in one of the showers. A flood of hot water, almost industrial in
quantity, washed away some of the stiffness of his uncomfortable night. Of course no
one would want to be seen showering there every day. Not that anyone was watching,
but some of the morning exercisers would eventually notice.
A membership in some nearby exercise club would provide an alternative bathroom.
What else did one need?
Somewhere to sleep, of course. The Honda would not suffice. If he had a van, and an
exercise club membership, and this locker room, and his office upstairs, and the men's
rooms up there.... As for food, the city had a million restaurants.
What else?
Nothing he could think of. Many people more or less lived in this building, all the
NSF hardcores who spent sixty or seventy hours a week here, ate their meals at their
desks or in the neighborhood restaurants, only went home to sleep—and these were
people with families, with kids, homes, pets, partners!
In a crowd like that it would be hard to stick out.
He got out of the shower, dried off (a stack of fresh white towels was there at hand),
shaved, dressed.
He glanced in the mirror over the sink, feeling a bit shy. He didn't look at himself in
mirrors anymore, never met his eye when shaving, stayed focused on the skin under the
blade. He didn't know why. Maybe it was because he did not resemble his conception of
himself, which was vaguely scientific and serious, say Darwinesque; and yet there in the
glass getting shaved was always the same old sun-fried jock.
But this time he looked. To his surprise he saw that he looked normal— that was to
say, the same as always. Normative. No one would be able to guess by his appearance
that he was sleep-deprived, that he had been thinking some pretty abnormal thoughts,
or, crucially, that he had spent the previous night in his car because he no longer had a
home.
"Hmm," he told his reflection.
He took the elevator up to the tenth floor, still thinking it over. He stood in the
doorway of his new office, evaluating the place by these new inhabitory criteria. It was a
true room, rather than a carrel in a larger space, so it had a door he could close. It
boasted one of the big inner windows looking into the building's central atrium, giving
him a direct view of the big colored mobile that filled the atrium's upper half.
This view was unfortunate, actually. He didn't want to look at that mobile, for not too
long ago he had found himself hanging upside down from it, in the middle of the night,
working desperately to extricate himself from an ill-conceived and poorly executed
break-and-enter job. He had been trying and failing to recover a badly worded
resignation letter he had left for Diane Chang, the NSF director. It was an incident he
would really rather forget.
But there the mobile hung, at the new angle which Frank had given to it and which no
one had noticed, perhaps a reminder to—to what? To try not to do stupid things. To
think things through before attempting them. But he always tried to do that, so the
reminder was unnecessary. Really, the mobile outside his window was a disadvantage.
But drapes could be installed.
There was room for a short couch against one wall, if he moved the bookcase there to
the opposite corner. It would then be like a kind of living room, with the computer as
entertainment center. There was an ordinary men's room around the corner, a coffee
nook clown the hall, the showers downstairs. All the necessities. As Sucandra had
remarked, at dinner once at the Quiblers', tasting spaghetti sauce with a wooden spoon:
Ahhhh—what now is lacking?
Same answer: Nothing.
It had to be admitted that it made him uneasy to be contemplating this idea.
Unsettled. It was deranged, in the literal sense of being outside the range. Typically
people did not choose to live without a home. No home to go home to; it was perhaps a
little crazy.
But in some obscure way, that aspect pleased him too. It was not crazy in the way that
breaking into the building through the skylight had been crazy; but it shared that act's
commitment to an idea. And was it any crazier than handing well over half of your
monthly take-home income to pay for seriously crappy lodging?
Nomadic existence. Life outdoors. So often he had thought about, read about, and
written about the biological imperatives in human behavior—about their primate
nature, and the evolutionary history that had led to humanity's paleolithic lifestyle,
which was the suite of behaviors that had caused their brains to balloon as rapidly as
they had; and about the residual power of all that in modern life. And all the while,
through all that thinking, reading, and writing, he had been sitting at a desk. Living like
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