《Guardian》作者：- Sean F. Stevens【EPUB】

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Guardian. By Sean. F. Stevens. Copyright Sean F Stevens 1996 1997 2001.GUARDIAN. In a billion languages the infinity of space calls to me. Caressed by the cool breezes that are the heralds of the coming Martian dawnI stand on Olympus Mons and look down on the city below where I once livedand I know that my assimilation into the fabric of the stream is almostcomplete.Memories of my former life rise to the surface of my consciousness pausing tofloat there momentarily before sinking forever absorbed by the totality of mynew perspective.I do not remember my human name but brief flashes of my life fade in and outof focus telling me the tale of my life as if for the first time. I rememberthe city of New Barrossa sitting at the feet of Olympus Mons I remember thatI was born here an only child of second generation immigrants who worked -as did all in the city - on the massive project with the small name: Eden. For over a hundred years the Eden project had terraformed Mars and it stillhad many years yet to go before a human could stand unassisted in the thinMartian atmosphere as I did now. even after all this time Mars still did notpossess any permanent bodies of water and the planets colonies were nowherenear as self sufficient as planned. but humanity is tenacious and bloodyminded it will as always persevere. My life plays out in the shadows of my memory. My childhood was quiet and uneventful having had limited contact with but afew children of my own age I was for the most part either plugged into theteaching machines or surrounded by the seemingly permanently dusty technicianswho were my fathers closest comrades. I hardly ever left home even myuniversity degree was done via the machines I have no memory of anybitterness at my situation I simply presumed that this was all I had toexpect from life that this was how life was. But that is not to say that Idid not feel lonely there seemed to me to be an indefinable vacuum in my lifeof which I did not have the data to identify. I had been taught with my futurefunctionality in mind and the abstract notions of the human animal that I wasat