（外文电子版资料）Anderson, Poul - Inheritors of Earth.docVIP

Inheritors of Earth Gordon Eklund and Poul Anderson 1974 TOC \o 1-3 \n \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l _ToContents HYPERLINK \l _ToOne HYPERLINK \l _ToTwo HYPERLINK \l _ToThree HYPERLINK \l _ToFour HYPERLINK \l _ToFive HYPERLINK \l _ToSix HYPERLINK \l _ToSeven HYPERLINK \l _ToEight HYPERLINK \l _ToNine HYPERLINK \l _ToTen HYPERLINK \l _ToEleven HYPERLINK \l _ToTwelve HYPERLINK \l _ToThirteen HYPERLINK \l _ToFourteen HYPERLINK \l _ToFifteen HYPERLINK \l _ToSixteen HYPERLINK \l _ToSeventeen HYPERLINK \l _ToEighteen HYPERLINK \l _ToNineteen HYPERLINK \l _ToTwenty HYPERLINK \l _ToTwenty-One HYPERLINK \l _ToTwenty-Two HYPERLINK \l _ToTwenty-Three HYPERLINK \l _ToTwenty-Four HYPERLINK \l _ToTwenty-Five One Happily humming one of the few really melodic popular tunes of the day, Alec Richmond rode the gently moving walkway down the corridor toward his office door. He was in such a good mood, so happy and contented with the whole world and every soul in it, that he felt almost shameful. But there was no way of changing his attitude, not unless he somehow managed to forget what had happened only a few hours earlier. His employer, Theodore Mencken, had finally signed a government contract both he and Alec had been strenuously laboring to land for six months or more. That contract meant money-several hundred thousand new dollars-but Alec knew the reason for his good mood was not money alone. It was the power and success and prestige that went with the contract and the fact that his accomplishments nearly required his promotion within the ranks of the Superiors. Alec didnt see how Astor or any of the others could expect to keep him out of the Inner Circle a day longer. Heretic or not, he had done wha