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.
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.
每個故事都很thought provoking,特彆喜歡Ted Chiang 的文字,娓娓道來。建議看一下最後的story notes, 就能發現作者是一個善於發現的人。 聊聊裏麵比較喜歡的幾個故事 * the merchant and alchemist ‘s gate: “past and future are the same, and we cannot change either...
評分去年的這個時候,我正在讀劉慈欣的中篇小說。 在那個無憂慮的鼕天,我和父母看瞭《流浪地球》,然後一同漫步在浦江邊,愉快的打量這未被氣候巨變摧毀的城市。——仿佛這已經過去瞭很久。而我現在卻處在被疫情侵擾的氛圍打量那個正常的城市。迴到我們的Ted Chiang & Exhalat...
評分果然我還是不適閤看科幻。《三體》第一部看瞭一半沒看明白,放棄。這本書,看瞭阿北推薦,就想看看試試。我評分前,這本書的評分是9.9。其實我想打三星半的,四星到不瞭。故事都還可以,都比較能引發人的思考。但在我看來,就是故事不夠有趣,讓我沒有那種很想繼續讀下去的欲望。從這個角度來說,隻有最後一個故事 Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom 的結尾是我覺得比較有趣或者有意思的。另外一個印象比較深的故事是 The lifecycle of software objects,也是很引人思考,但讀起來真不覺得有意思,能印象深刻有一半是因為這篇真長。
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
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."
评分新加兩篇忒好,一篇喜概念,一篇喜道德
评分還是很不捨地peruse式地讀完,看每篇寫作筆記也更是讓我無比珍惜,像是站在作者麵前聽他慢慢講起多年以來他知曉和思考的所有:無法改變的過去與對應的未來、熵與混亂、無意義的人生與嚮死、情感聯係與意識的形成、語言和和記憶的真實、宇宙起源和人性信仰、以及人為何是人
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息,本站不存儲任何數據與內容,任何內容與數據均與本站無關,如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 onlinetoolsland.com All Rights Reserved. 本本书屋 版权所有