具體描述
From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already celebrated short stories
This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: "Omphalos" and "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom."
In this fantastical and elegant collection, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth--What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?--and ones that no one else has even imagined. And, each in its own way, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion.
著者簡介
TED CHIANG was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and holds a degree in computer science. His fiction has won numerous awards. His first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, has been translated into ten languages. He lives near Seattle, Washington.
圖書目錄
- Exhalation
- What's Expected of Us
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects
- Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny
- The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
- The Great Silence
- Omphalos
- Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom
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讀後感
人类替数码体做决定，确实就像父母给孩子规划人生，经验固然可以预测未来，但是在多大程度上，经验的有效性可以大过对自由意志的尊重和呵护？18岁只是写在纸上的一个数字。 另外，科幻的基石逻辑大抵是科技的发展或者架空。本篇二者兼有，借由科幻的外壳讨论的当然还是哲学的问...
評分读史使人明智。这里的史是历史，也是未来史。 我们从过去学到的，跟我们从未来学到的，竟然都如此丰富多彩！这才是科幻书该有的模样！ 以下分享几个自己比较有感触的故事： 炼金术：我们既是自己人生的参与者和创造者，但有时候也是无力改变的旁观者。过去发生的事实无法改变，...
評分人类替数码体做决定，确实就像父母给孩子规划人生，经验固然可以预测未来，但是在多大程度上，经验的有效性可以大过对自由意志的尊重和呵护？18岁只是写在纸上的一个数字。 另外，科幻的基石逻辑大抵是科技的发展或者架空。本篇二者兼有，借由科幻的外壳讨论的当然还是哲学的问...
評分 評分人类替数码体做决定，确实就像父母给孩子规划人生，经验固然可以预测未来，但是在多大程度上，经验的有效性可以大过对自由意志的尊重和呵护？18岁只是写在纸上的一个数字。 另外，科幻的基石逻辑大抵是科技的发展或者架空。本篇二者兼有，借由科幻的外壳讨论的当然还是哲学的问...
用戶評價
no。故事也許OK，文筆一般。
评分The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate / Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom
评分一個多月之前看的。結尾的兩篇新作特彆棒。
评分薑峯楠的這本科幻小說文集有點《黑鏡》的感覺。我最喜歡的是講穿越的Alchemist's Gate，養成電子寵物的The Lifecycle of Software Objects，記錄迴憶的The Truth of Fact/the Truth of Feeling，還有鸚鵡寫的The Great Silence。最後一篇我原來去年在亞洲文化協會的《尋林覓趣》展覽讀過，波多黎各藝術傢拍攝雨林中的鸚鵡，以及Arecibo天文颱，探討動物滅絕和科技的關係，字幕正是薑的這篇The Great Silence。“It's no coincidence that 'aspiration' means both hope and breathing...I speak, therefore I am."
评分Exhalation 本來就是我最喜歡薑老師的一篇，後麵兩篇翁法洛斯和焦慮是自由的眩暈是新篇，太期待瞭纔買瞭原版來看，物超所值。薑老師的語言一如既往地理性，邏輯性也極強，因為那種詳實的感受讓故事背景可信。每一篇當中對社會人性的討論都有有許多有趣的點，有的點感覺單獨拿齣來就能寫一個短篇
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