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had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire."Why aren't you dead?" Ender asked him. "You fought your battle seventy years ago. I don't think you're evensixty years old.""The miracles of relativity," said Mazer. "They kept me here for twenty years after the battle, even though Ibegged them to let me command one of the starships they launched against the bugger home planet and thebugger colonies. Then they -- came to understand some things about the way soldiers behave in the stress ofbattle.""What things?""You've never been taught enough psyholgy to understand. Enough to say that they realized that even though Iwould never be able to command the fleet -- I'd be dead before the fleet even arrived -- I was still the only personable to understand the things I understood about the buggers. I was, they realized, the only person who had everdefeated the bugeers by intelligence rather than luck. They needed me here to teach the person who *could*command the fleet.""So they sent you out in a starship, got you up to a relativistic speed--""And then I turned around and came home. A very dull voyage, Ender. Fifty years in space. Officially, onlyeight years passed for me, but it felt like five hundred. All so I could teach the next commander everything Iknew.""Am I to be the commander, then?""Let's say that you're our best bet at present.""There are others being prepared, too?"第 278 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网