《Critical Angle 》作者：- A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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CRITICAL ANGLE We were lucky to escape with our lives and for that reason, I suppose, we have no real cause for complaint. All the same, it hurts, this being regarded as vandals by the very people who should be most grateful to us. And it's not only the astronomers who have it in for us — every third rate versifier who ever wrote slushy lyrics for popular songs hates our guts; and if it ever does come to a shooting war with the Soviet Union, and we lose, I rather fear that Hank and I will head the list of American citizens to be liquidated without delay. It was all far too much of a rush job, of course. There should have been rockets round the Moon, unmanned and manned. There should have been unmanned rockets landing on the Moon. The much advertised telemetering equipment should have been given a real work-out. But politics — and international politics at that — got all tangled up with honest