Stories of Your Life and Others

特德•姜（Ted Chiang）美国华裔科幻作家，1967年生。毕业于布朗大学计算机专业，之后从事软件行业。自1990年发表处女作《巴比伦塔》至今，只出版了十四篇短篇或中篇小说，却让他捧回了包括星云奖、雨果奖、坎贝尔奖在内的几乎所有科幻大奖的奖杯。

出版者:Tor

作者:Ted Chiang

页数:288

出版时间:2005

价格:6.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780330426640

图书标签:科幻小说版不同本一样

Amazon.com Review

This marvelous collection by one of science fiction's most thoughtful and graceful writers belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in literary science fiction.

Collected here for the first time, Ted Chiang's award-winning stories--recipients of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Campbell, and Asimov awards--offer a feast of science, speculation, humanity, and lyricism. Standouts include "Tower of Babylon," in which a miner ascends the fabled tower in order to break through the vault of heaven; "Division by Zero," a precise and heartbreaking examination of the disintegration of hope and love; and "Story of Your Life," in which a linguist learns an alien language that reshapes her view of the world. Chiang has the gift that lies at the heart of good science fiction: a human story, beautifully told, in which the science is an expression of the deeper issues that the characters must confront. Full of remarkable ideas and unforgettable moments, Stories of Your Life and Others is highly recommended. --Roz Genessee --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Here's the first must-read SF book of the year. Chiang has acquired a massive reputation on the basis of very few pieces of short fiction. This collection contains all six previously published tales, including the Nebula Award-winning "Tower of Babylon," plus a new story, "Liking What You See: A Documentary." It's rare for a writer to become so prominent so fast. In this case, though, the hype is deserved. Chiang has mastered an extremely tricky type of SF story. He begins with a startling bit of oddity, then, as readers figure out what part of the familiar world has been twisted, they realize that it was just a small part of a much larger structure of marvelous, threatening strangeness. Reading a Chiang story means juggling multiple conceptions of what is normal and right. Probably this kind of brain twisting can be done with such intensity only in shorter lengths; if these stories were much longer, readers' heads might explode. Still, the most surprising thing is how much feeling accompanies the intellectual exercises. Whether their initial subject is ancient Babylonians building a tower that reaches the base of Heaven, translation of an alien language that shows a woman a new way to view her life as a mother, or mass-producing golems in an alternative Victorian England, Chiang's stories are audacious, challenging and moving. They resemble the work of a less metaphysical Philip K. Dick or a Borges with more characterization and a grasp of cutting-edge science.

Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

读后感

看罢了感觉全文象一条首尾相接的蛇，我们以为故事结束了，结果故事又回到了开始。 我花了两个中午的时间刚看完这篇文章，作者描述的不是我们一般思维的所谓“主人公通过和外星人的交流看到未来”，这样理解就完完全全错啦！ 　　 看整篇文章，作者对于外星人是如何...  

提到特德.姜我们会感到骄傲，不只因为他是华裔的美国作家，现在科幻文坛上的顶尖人物。在通读他的所有作品之后，我可以指出：之所以姜峰楠（其中文名）如此特出于科幻作家群体，实在是源于他对古老中国“名”的哲学深入的理解。他的小说善于将长篇故事浓缩在短章之中，故而想吃...  

一生的故事，没有因果 读完《你一生的故事》，心中万千情丝，一丝感动，一缕无奈，缠绕心头，编织成一份直面未来的勇气。 作为一篇少见的以语言学为核心的科幻小说，曾经获1998年的星云奖和斯特金奖。作者特德·蒋用区区几万字勾勒出一个自由随意的世界，给人以自由温润的感觉...  

在候机的时候看完了《你一生的故事》，费了半天劲去理解书中的思想，然后在飞机上写了一堆乱七八糟的分析。以下便是鄙人在震惊状态下写的东西。语无伦次，爱看不看~ ------------------------------------------------ 特德姜将两者的矛盾通过“你要么选择预知未来、放弃自由...