“One of the world’s premier science fiction writers.”
--Newsday
“Isaac Asimov is the greatest explainer of the age.”
--Carl Sagan
“For fifty years it was Isaac Asimov’s tone of address that all the other voices of SF obeyed…. For five decades his was the voice to which SF came down in the end. His was the default voice of SF.”
--The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he’s a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it’s the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil—so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.
Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.
This is young Isaac Asimov’s first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation books and novels. It is also one of that select group of SF adventures that since the early 1950s has hooked generations of teenagers on reading science fiction. This is Golden Age SF at its finest.
發表於2025-02-01
Pebble in the Sky 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
斷斷續續的將銀河帝國係列間雜著全部看完,不知道是花瞭多久的閱讀時間。從此以後,夜晚仰望時將不由得會把阿西莫夫的銀河世界代入到頭頂上的這片星空裏,基地、川陀、地球......在每一片星區裏幻想演繹齣來的一章接一章的詩篇,似童話、似史詩、似傳奇,浸淫在其間,能不叫人...
評分終於把一套《銀河帝國》看完瞭。一套15本,斷斷續續看瞭一年半的時間。 最後一本叫《蒼穹一粟》。《銀河帝國》分成瞭基地係列、機器人係列、帝國係列。這本書是整套書的最後一本,也是帝國係列的第三本,但成書卻比其他係列還早。書寫於1949年,距離廣島事件僅僅四年。這本書...
評分情節沒有什麼令人興奮的地方,一個狡猾的教廷秘書自以為是的推測敵人的行動。不知道是不是阿西莫夫第一次提齣心靈控製的概念。 把地球這個星際殖民的發源地設置成一個落後遭鄙視的星球倒是挺有意思的,不清楚從殖民開始到故事的時間隔瞭多久(幾韆年?),地...
圖書標籤: 阿西莫夫 科幻 Asimov 小說 英文原版 美國 集 藏書
讀之前期待太高瞭,讀完後反而覺得比較一般:算是披著科幻的皮講種族歧視還有科學學說和ideology之間的故事。
評分反派們各種想多瞭的那段很有趣。此外,Synapsifier處理後的老鼠走迷宮那部分,總讓我聯想到阿爾吉儂,從兩本書的寫作時間來看(Pebble寫於1947年,Flowers for Algernon寫於1958年),所以應該是Asimov啓發瞭Daniel Keyes?
評分這是我看的Asimov的第一本小說,因為想要按照他書寫的順序看,所以從這本開始。畢竟他那二十幾部小說所描繪的Galactic Empire是一篇巨幅的史詩,單獨一本必然沒有那麼宏大的感覺,一定要全部融閤在一起。這本的開頭看著很普通,突然穿越到陌生的世界,細節寫得很多,或許有的人覺得囉嗦會中途放棄。 不過堅持過半之後,後麵會有小高潮,閱讀也越來越順暢。 基本算是給大傢一個籠統的overview。跟著作者構思的路程來看應該會是很有趣的過程吧。
評分全係列終
評分阿西莫夫的文字功底還是不錯, 讀起很順暢
Pebble in the Sky 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載