银河系漫游指南好看吗 经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第17章6

经典科幻文学:《银河系漫游指南》第17章6  

"I can't either
" said Arthur
who felt it was time he began to assert himself.
"I'd guessed that
" said Zaphod. "OK puter
I want full manual control now."
"You got it
" said the puter.
Several large desk panels slid open and banks of control consoles sprang up out of them
showering the crew with bits of expanded polystyrene packaging and balls of rolled-up cellophane: these controls had never been used before.
Zaphod stared at them wildly.
"OK
Ford
" he said
"full retro thrust and ten degrees starboard. Or something ..."
"Good luck guys
" chirped the puter
"impact minus thirty seconds ..."
Ford leapt to the controls — only a few of them made any immediate sense to him so he pulled those. The ship shook and screamed as its guidance rocked jets tried to push it every which way simultaneously. He released half of them and the ship span round in a tight arc and headed back the way it had e
straight towards the oning missiles.
Air cushions ballooned out of the walls in an instant as everyone was thrown against them. For a few seconds the inertial forces held them flattened and squirming for breath
unable to move. Zaphod struggled and pushed in manic desperation and finally managed a savage kick at a small lever that formed part of the guidance system.
The lever snapped off. The ship isted sharply and rocketed upwards. The crew were hurled violently back across the cabin. Ford's copy of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy smashed into another section of the control console with the bined result that the guide started to explain to anyone who cared to listen about the best ways of smuggling Antarean parakeet glands out of Antares (an Antarean parakeet gland stuck on a small stick is a revolting but much sought after cocktail delicacy and very large sums of money are often paid for them by very rich idiots who want to impress other very rich idiots)
and the ship suddenly dropped out of the sky like a stone.
It was of course more or less at this moment that one of the crew sustained a nasty bruise to the upper arm. This should be emphasized because
as had already been revealed
they escape otherwise pletely unharmed and the deadly nuclear missiles do not eventually hit the ship. The safety of the crew is absolutely assured.
"Impact minus enty seconds
guys ..." said the puter.