标题: 《Rim In the Box 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-5 19:05 标题: 《Rim In the Box 》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】 You may remember "Swap Shop" in the December 1957 issue. Here is another story of the crew of the Eupeptic Dragon in their trading excursions round the galaxy. This time they are involved in a quiz story—with interesting if not profitable results. ? IN THE BOX ? By Bertram Chandler ? There was a time, and not so very long ago, when the principle of interstellar telegraphic communication was a closely guarded secret. It was inconvenient, perhaps, that the psionic radio should have been developed whilst the so-called Great Revival was in full swing—and yet, from the viewpoint of the telepaths, ever apprehensive that a mob of religious fanatics might take too seriously the Biblical injunction ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,' it was fortunate. It meant that there was a demand for their services in Deep Space and on the Outworlds, it meant that they came under the protec?tion of the powerful