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.
Why do we remember the past not the future? 太好看瞭,新作隻有兩篇,但實在太喜歡最後一篇關於焦慮的文字。看完他的三本書著實讓我長長的喘瞭口氣,薑老師一如既往理性邏輯強且溫柔,這點我要多跟他學習。我們這代人也許有機會觀察和經曆比以往更激烈和快速發展的周期,意味著機遇和挑戰。最終我們會因為宇宙的引力自然而然的被流嚮一個不管現在想來閤理或不閤理的未來,一切不可測,唯有保持平靜和學習的心態去經曆每一個當下。
評分##無盡無盡的溫柔。
評分##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
評分##no。故事也許OK,文筆一般。
評分##在書店看到纔發現居然包括2019年的兩篇新作,立刻買下,迴傢讀完隻能說 Ted 那一套架空世界娓娓道來震碎三觀的風格真是越來越溜瞭,一齣手就是神作。。
評分##讀這本書的過程就像是一呼一吸,沒有哪一刻會因為懸念或過濃的情感而屏氣,但薑的故事似乎可以給予人穩定恒常的生命。如果大多數科幻作者是在描繪未來,那薑給我的感覺是在講述過去,或更準確地說是像寓言一樣,既可存在於過去,又可存在於抽象的靜止的虛空:既是此刻,亦是永恒,是人的存在和思考所能覆蓋的全部時間。他的世界觀從不以迷戀技術與工業發展為軸心,即便在最廢拖托邦的想象裏,筆觸永遠contemplative,永遠在推敲人類情感和道德體係中無所不在的subtlety。科學與哲學的一體兩麵被薑層層疊疊地探索瞭,歸根結底都是無限的人性,是人對自身和外部世界的不竭不懈的mediation。科幻作品裏永遠不應該缺少/人/的痕跡。
評分##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
評分##敘事沉著猶如引嚮無可避免的悲劇的鐵軌,我們作為車窗裏的乘客看到夕陽火紅卻沒有溫度,是造物神第一聲om的最後一聲迴響,是氣息開始散去前胸腔使的最後的勁兒。
評分##看新作來的,最喜歡的還是第一篇商人與煉金術士之門,這可如何是好。
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