标题: 《SinBad the Sand Sailor 》作者：- R. Garcia y Robertson 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-15 10:03 标题: 《SinBad the Sand Sailor 》作者：- R. Garcia y Robertson 【EPUB】 Novelette: SINBAD THE SAND SAILOR by R. Garcia y RobertsonThe author is currently at work on two historical fantasy romances. One is set in the time of Christ andthe other during the golden age of piracy in the Caribbean. His latest science fiction story is both a jauntyhomage to adventure fiction of the near and distant past and a thrilling depiction of the perils of the future._Woman in the Dunes_Near to noon SinBad saw something flapping on a dune. Loose shiny fabric with an expensive sheenshone in the morning light. He had the wind on his port beam and was making good time on firmred-ochre sward bordered by sand headed north for Hastor. Sand goggles hid half his face showingjust the hard line of his jaw and a black spade beard. Clean even teeth grinned at the prospect of gettingsomething for free. Barsoom was seldom so giving.SinBad spilled air losing precious headway pulling his sand sail into the wind skidding to a stop on thesward. Starting up would not be so easy.Leaping out of his seat SinBad ran to see why he had stopped.Up close SinBad saw the sandy bundle had blond hair and smooth bare limbs half-hidden by a torn airhostess uniform. Her big silver badge said quotHi Im Tiffany.quotHe instinctively looked to heaven. Thuria the nearer moon was rising soon. Leave her here and Slaverswould snatch her up.Feeling a faint pulse and a flutter of breath he said a swift prayer to Issus quotDo not take her yet.quotSinBad dashed back to his sand sail breaking into the cargo box. Luckily he was smuggling offworlddrugs. Finding a hydrated sedative and a broad spectrum antibiotic he injected her then waited.His employers would hate this. SinBad smuggled for the Aymads the Number Ones -- who did not docharity. quotWatch Out for Number Onequot was their motto. Whatever meds he used would come out of hisend. Or else.Pulse and breathing grew stronger more regular. Good. Now what He could not leave her. His sandsail was fully loaded