Exhalation: Stories

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.

出版者:Knopf

作者:Ted Chiang

页数:368

出版时间:2019-5-7

价格:USD 29.50

装帧:精装

isbn号码:9781101947883

图书标签:科幻TedChiang小说特德姜英文原版短篇小说SciFi硬科幻

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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.

读后感

先说一声，书是在豆瓣书店买的，赠送的书签真好用，镂空设计，夹在书里也不影响阅读。 才读完第一篇《商人与炼金术士之门》，已经决得物有所值。好故事无价。它让我对如何阅读小说，有了更清晰的认识。 阅读行为和其他事情一样，都有人经验世界的过程。 面对一个好故事，读者既...  

总结来说，我不太喜欢《呼吸》这本书，故事很碎，看得很累。一本书由很多小篇构成，而且每篇都不能称为一个完整独立的故事。有的觉得意犹未尽，有的觉得不明所以，有的真实得像一篇科普。一句话总结，就是不对味。 那为何会选择这本书呢？因为一是豆瓣2019年评分第一名，二是《...  

先说一声，书是在豆瓣书店买的，赠送的书签真好用，镂空设计，夹在书里也不影响阅读。 才读完第一篇《商人与炼金术士之门》，已经决得物有所值。好故事无价。它让我对如何阅读小说，有了更清晰的认识。 阅读行为和其他事情一样，都有人经验世界的过程。 面对一个好故事，读者既...  

用户评价

姜峯楠的这本科幻小说文集有点《黑镜》的感觉。我最喜欢的是讲穿越的Alchemist's Gate，养成电子宠物的The Lifecycle of Software Objects，记录回忆的The Truth of Fact/the Truth of Feeling，还有鹦鹉写的The Great Silence。最后一篇我原来去年在亚洲文化协会的《寻林觅趣》展览读过，波多黎各艺术家拍摄雨林中的鹦鹉，以及Arecibo天文台，探讨动物灭绝和科技的关系，字幕正是姜的这篇The Great Silence。“It's no coincidence that 'aspiration' means both hope and breathing...I speak, therefore I am."

瑰丽的想象力，温柔的人性关怀，深邃理性的思考，唯一就是语言差了点

Ted Chiang的书还是一如既往地富有哲理。似乎还是在看故事呢， 突然之间的一句话的总结或者一个段落的总结就让我感到豁然开朗，醍醐灌顶。尤其是书后面的Story Notes交代了故事的背景，更加让我对作者产生敬佩之心，因为小事件的发生和平时的悉心观察就是一个故事的素材。最喜欢最后一篇，淋漓尽致。

page-turner.

Why do we remember the past not the future? 太好看了，新作只有两篇，但实在太喜欢最后一篇关于焦虑的文字。看完他的三本书着实让我长长的喘了口气，姜老师一如既往理性逻辑强且温柔，这点我要多跟他学习。我们这代人也许有机会观察和经历比以往更激烈和快速发展的周期，意味着机遇和挑战。最终我们会因为宇宙的引力自然而然的被流向一个不管现在想来合理或不合理的未来，一切不可测，唯有保持平静和学习的心态去经历每一个当下。