（外文电子版资料）Robert Silverberg - Lost Race of Mars.pdf

Lost Race of Mars By Robert Silverberg Illustrated by Leonard Kessler SCHOLASTIC BOOK SERVICES New York – Toronto – London – Auckland – Sydney – Tokyo This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not be resold, lent or otherwise circulated in any binding or cover other than that in which it was published—unless prior written permission has been obtained from the publisher—and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent publisher. (Yet, we the people, in granting your company the legal right to impose such conditions hereby impose upon your company the condition that if our company should cease to publish and/or make the text of this book available, then the copyrights of this book shall naturally become those of the people, as the publishing company will have shown, through its neglect of this text, to no longer have any actual interest in making this information available to anyone who wishes to obtain it.) Copyright © 1960 by Robert Silverberg. This edition is published by Scholastic Book Services, a division of Scholastic Magazines, Inc., by arrangement with Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 7th Printing April 1973 Printed in the U.S.A. This one is for SCOTT Chapter 1 Do you think theyve forgotten? Jim Chambers whispered. His sister Sally, who was almost eleven, shrugged and shook her red head. Theyve never forgotten before, have they? Theres always a first time, Jim said gloomily. He was twelve, old enough to know that grownups sometimes forgot the most important things. But would they forget Surprise Day? That was like forgetting Christmas. Still, here it was, eight oclock, and soon it would be bedtime, and Surprise Day would be over — without any surprise. It was har