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.
0 我阅读《呼吸》时伴随阅读了《博尔赫斯谈话录(Borges at Eighties: Conversations)》以及博尔赫斯暮年的最后几篇短篇小说。并行的阅读让我无法忽视掉两个作者的近似之处。 1 我感受到了大量相似之处,但这并不足以说明特德姜一定是从博尔赫斯这里吸取的养分。他们具有“高...
评分 评分读史使人明智。这里的史是历史,也是未来史。 我们从过去学到的,跟我们从未来学到的,竟然都如此丰富多彩!这才是科幻书该有的模样! 以下分享几个自己比较有感触的故事: 炼金术:我们既是自己人生的参与者和创造者,但有时候也是无力改变的旁观者。过去发生的事实无法改变,...
评分人类替数码体做决定,确实就像父母给孩子规划人生,经验固然可以预测未来,但是在多大程度上,经验的有效性可以大过对自由意志的尊重和呵护?18岁只是写在纸上的一个数字。 另外,科幻的基石逻辑大抵是科技的发展或者架空。本篇二者兼有,借由科幻的外壳讨论的当然还是哲学的问...
评分no。故事也许OK,文笔一般。
评分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。
评分还是很不舍地peruse式地读完,看每篇写作笔记也更是让我无比珍惜,像是站在作者面前听他慢慢讲起多年以来他知晓和思考的所有:无法改变的过去与对应的未来、熵与混乱、无意义的人生与向死、情感联系与意识的形成、语言和和记忆的真实、宇宙起源和人性信仰、以及人为何是人
评分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。
评分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."
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