标题: 《The Lost Worlds of 2001》作者： - Clarke_ Arthur C_【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-4-21 08:18 标题: 《The Lost Worlds of 2001》作者： - Clarke_ Arthur C_【EPUB】 The Lost Worlds of 2001 The Lost Worlds of 2001 The Lost Worlds of 2001 The Lost Worlds of 2001 FOREWORD Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. So began the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey when it was published in July 1968. But the first version, four years earlier, had started like this…. The Lost Worlds of 2001 VIEW FROM THE YEAR 2000 Between the first and last decades of the twentieth century lay a gulf greater than the wildest imagination could have conceived. It was the gulf between gunpowder and nuclear bomb, between messages tapped in Morse and global television from the sky, between Queen Victoria, Empress of India, and Kwame Chaka, Supreme President of the African Federation. But above all it was the gulf between the first hundred-foot flight at Kitty Hawk, and the first billion-mile mission to the moons of Jupiter. All of these things, ages apart in terms of culture, lay within the span of that one incredible century. The thunder of doom had barely ceased to roll above Eniwetok Atoll when the first Sputnik rose beeping into the sky. Across the constellations moved stars that no astronomers had seen before, and as the ancient dust of the Sea of Rains received the first emissary from Earth, the long loneliness of the Moon was ended forever. Barely a moment later, as the universe counts time, Man followed his messengers