經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第17章4

Ford tapped Zaphod on the shoulder and pointed at the rear screen. Clear in the distance behind them two silver darts were climbing through the atmosphere towards the ship. A quick change of magnification brought them into close focus - two massively real rockets thundering through the sky. The suddenness of it was shocking.
"I think they're going to have a very good try at applying to us," said Ford.
Zaphod stared at them in astonishment. + "Hey this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!"
"Terrific," said Arthur.
"But don't you see what this means?"
"Yes. We're going to die."
"Yes, but apart from that."
"Apart from that?"
"It means we must be on to something!"
"How soon can we get off it?"
Second by second the image of the missiles on the screen became larger. They had swung round now on to a direct homing course so that all that could be seen of them now was the warheads, head on.
"As a matter of interest," said Trillian, "what are we going to do?"
"Just keep cool," said Zaphod.

福特拍拍贊福德的肩膀，指指他身後的屏幕。上面可以清楚地看到兩枚銀色的標槍正刺破大氣層朝着飛船的尾部飛來。屏幕及時放大顯示，看得更清晰了——兩枚真正的火箭正在穿越天空。其突然性確實令人震驚。
“我想他們真準備好好給我們來一下。”福特說。
贊福德驚訝地看着這一切。“嘿，真是不可思議！”他說，“下面居然有人想殺死我們！”
“不可思議。”阿瑟說。
“難道你還不明白這意味着什麼嗎？”
“當然。我們快死了。”
“是的，但除此之外……”
“除此之外？”
“這意味着我們必須到別的什麼東西上去！”
“我們需要多久才能離開飛船？”
時間一秒一秒過去，屏幕上的導彈變得越來越大。它們已經調整了飛行姿態，正對着飛船，所以能夠看見的只有滿載的核彈頭。
“有趣的局面。”崔莉恩說，“我們現在能做些什麼呢？”
“只能保持冷靜。”贊福德說。