دانلود رمان انگلیسی “هزار زمین”

It began with an ending. It ended with a beginning. Denise Libby had come all the way out to Jupiter, from Earth, to interview her ex-husband, John Hackett. Now, alone in a tiny, automated shuttle, Denise Libby barely felt the push, barely heard the hiss of the steam-rocket engines as the craft lifted her from the surface of Callisto, moon of Jupiter. She said: ‘Hull to transparent.’ The cabin stayed opaque. Like a wall of dumb steel. She’d been told that this was standard: local rules. Only long-term residents, the local police, emergency workers and other privileged folk were to be entrusted with the giddying sight of an ascent from, or descent to, any of Jupiter’s inhabited moons. Just too vertiginous a sight for a novice, so the rule went. Or, more likely, the burgeoning conflict between Earth and its Jovian colonies mandated secrecy on all sides. Weapons platforms to be glimpsed, perhaps. Even mining operations not authorised by Earth …