（外文电子版资料）Robert J. Sawyer - You See But You Do Not Observe.pdf

file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruiswijk/Mijn%2...%20Sawyer%20-%20You%20See%20But%20You%20Do%20Not%20Observe.txt You See But You Do Not Observe by Robert J. Sawyer Copyright 漏 1995 by Robert J. Sawyer All Rights Reserved First published in the anthology Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW, 1995); authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. Winner of both the CompuServe Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums Sixth Annual HOMer Award for Best Short Story of the Year and Le Grand Prix de lImaginaire, Frances top SF award, for Best Foreign Short Story of the Year. I had been pulled into the future first, ahead of my companion. There was no sensation associated with the chronotransference, except for a popping of my ears which I was later told had to do with a change in air pressure. Once in the 21st century, my brain was scanned in order to produce from my memories a perfect reconstruction of our rooms at 221B Baker Street. Details that I could not consciously remember or articulate were nonetheless reproduced exactly: the flock-papered walls, the bearskin hearthrug, the basket chair and the armchair, the coal-scuttle, even the view through the window -- all were correct to the smallest detail. I was met in the future by a man who called himself Mycroft Holmes. He claimed, however, to be no relation to my companion, and protested that his name was mere coincidence, although he allowed that the fact of it was likely what had made a study of my partners methods his chief avocation. I asked him if he had a brother called Sherlock, but his reply made little sense to me: My parents werent that cruel. In any event, this Mycroft Holmes -- who was a small man with reddish hair, quite unlike the stout and dark ale of a fellow with the same name I had known two hundred years before -- wanted all details to be correct before he whisked Holmes here from the