文學小說 (科幻)
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2013-07-24
2312: A Novel
Kim Stanley Robinson
Orbit
May 2012
576pp
書籍編號:
01-1610
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● 內文簡介

★2012年星雲獎最佳小說得主!

★入圍雨果獎(得主待公布)、克拉克獎(Arthur C. Clarke Award)、英國科幻小說獎(British Science Fiction Award)、軌跡科幻小說獎(Locus Best Science Fiction Novel of 2012)、坎貝爾紀念獎(John C. Campbell Memorial Award)

★《紐約時報》暢銷書、《圖書館期刊》2012年度最佳圖書

★版權已售英、美、德、西、日、波、匈、羅、簡中9國語文!

科幻名家羅賓遜(Kim Stanley Robinson)繼橫掃星雲獎、雨果獎的「火星三部曲」系列(《紅火星》、《綠火星》、《藍火星》)後,再度強勢問鼎雙獎鉅作,被譽為迄今為止的巔峰作!

2312年,科技的進展已使星際移民成為現實,人類大舉將太陽系各星體改造為適宜人居的環境,就連最靠近太陽、條件最險惡的水星,也出現令人驚嘆的新型城市。數以千計的小行星被鑿開,轉化成培育瀕臨絕種生物的人工生態圈,同時兼具星際大眾運輸的功能。飽受數百年污染與氣候變遷摧殘的地球,則是嚴重過熱,水災肆虐,92%的生物有絕種之虞,成為景況悲慘卻永遠無法抹滅的原鄉。

交界市(Terminator)在水星的存在堪稱工程史上的奇蹟。為避開日照的高溫灼燒與輻射傷害,交界市不僅有圓頂保護,最可觀的是它位於一條軌道上。隨著星球旋轉,軌道一但遇日照受熱膨脹,便會推動整座城市前進,因此交界市始終在日夜交界之處,永遠都在黎明朦朧之時,持續奔向星球黑暗的那一側。

故事主角史莞是一名在交界市生長、以交界市為豪的生態景觀設計師,個性大膽、勇於冒險的她,沉醉於追逐太陽的危險嗜好,熱衷身體改造工程,不僅大腦植入微型人工智慧,還兼有男性生殖器官。故事一開始,祖母艾麗突如其來的死訊教史莞措手不及,艾麗是設計星際移民體系的重要科學家,素有「水星之獅」的稱號,她的神秘留言令史莞深信祖母的死疑點重重。

為了傳遞艾麗的訊息,史莞結識來自土星泰坦的費茲,艾麗生前秘密進行的計畫也逐漸浮上檯面。此時,交界市遭到不明爆炸攻擊,軌道受到嚴重破壞,只能眼睜睜看著停滯的城市本體在烈日下付之一炬。摯愛家鄉的覆滅令史莞悲憤交加,她帶著輻射傷害與費茲潛行地底隧道數週逃亡,漫漫黑暗中,與同樣雌雄同體但沉穩內斂的費茲建立起堅實的情感。

誰是這樁規模超乎想像的恐怖行動的主使者?他們與星際警署警官珍奈特聯手,來回於太陽系各據點調查,複雜的宇宙勢力令真相撲朔迷離:以殘破的地球為據點,在金星力行改造的中國有動機;發展最完備的火星雖默不作聲,也有潛在動機;負責全體系運算作業的量子電腦人工智慧牽涉重大;最後,甚至史莞與費茲都有嫌疑!

《2013》是一段迫使人性面對自身過去、現在與未來的深邃歷程。作者以優美得教人屏息的文字及非凡的知識,細膩建構出令人嘆為觀止的想像世界,生動真實得讓書評讚嘆「有如過去一般的未來」。而破敗不堪的地球並未消失在新社會、新歷史的圖面,反而如同小說中的星際人因重力緣故必須定時返回地球一樣,時時存在於故事關懷的深處,承襲了作者一貫對生態與人類政治社會的銳利洞察。

 

● 作者簡介

金.史丹利.羅賓遜(Kim Stanley Robinson),紐約暢銷作家,雨果獎、星雲獎、軌跡獎得主。有超過二十本著作,包括暢銷的「火星三部曲」,備受讚譽的《Forty Signs of Rain》、《Fifty Degrees Below》、《Sixty Days and Counting》系列作,《The Years of Rice and Salt》、《Antarctica》、《Galileo》等。2008年獲《時代》雜誌選為「環境英雄」(Hero of the Environment),近來加入Sequoia Parks Foundation的藝術家計畫Artists in the Back Country。現居加州。

 

● 媒體報導

“The wonderfully inventive 2312 is, in this way, Robinson’s most aesthetically reverent work to date. Science, engineering, history, politics, philosophy, parenting, love—in this novel all are reimagined as essentially artistic practices, as the sorts of ecstatic creative pursuits people might devote themselves to once liberated from the drudgery capitalism inflicts on us.”——洛杉磯書評

"Robinson's extraordinary completeness of vision results in a magnificently realized, meticulously detailed future in which social and biological changes keep pace with technological developments."——出版人週刊

"Intellectually engaged and intensely humane in a way SF rarely is, exuberantly speculative in a way only the best SF can be, this is the work of a writer at or approaching the top of his game."——伊恩﹛班克斯(Iain M. Banks),《捕蜂器》作者

"Inherently epic stuff... expect interplanetary strife, conspiracies, more big ideas than most SF authors pack into a trilogy... [yet] this is ultimately in so many respects a book about Earth... a wise and wondrous novel"——SFX

"A brilliant, plausible account of how humans might colonize planets, moons and asteroids, 2312 is also about the future of art and family."——NPR Books

"In his vibrant, often moving new novel, "2312," Robinson's extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. [...] Perhaps Robinson's finest novel, "2312" is a treasured gift to fans of passionate storytelling; readers will be with Swan and Wahram in the tunnel long after reaching the last page."——洛杉磯時報

"This is a grand tour of an intensely imagined interplanetary future of modified human beings, terraformed planets, experiments in economics and sociology and hundreds of other delights. All of it is in Robinson's eloquent, enthusiastic and inimitable prose"——Morning Star (UK)