breathe

Exhalation: Stories

★ This collection of works is by Ted Chiang, the Chinese-American science fiction genius and author of the original novel of "Arrival".
★ 9 short stories, 9 episodes of "Black Mirror", integrating the poetry of science fiction with the romance of philosophy: All my desires and contemplations are the air slowly exhaled by this universe.
★ Ted Chiang is on every “must-read science fiction” list.
After 30 years of debut and only 17 short stories, he has won four Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, three Trails Awards, and three Japan Science Fiction Awards. In addition, he has also won the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Sturgeon Medal, and the Campbell Medal.
Obama sincerely recommends: This is what good science fiction should be. "Breathe" makes you think about the big questions and feel more deeply the warmth of being human.
★ A new collection of Ted Chiang's works, listed as a must-read in Time magazine in 2019 and one of the New York Times' top ten books of 2019, including "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," "Breathing," "The Long Road Ahead," "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," "Darcy's New Automatic Nanny," "The Double Truth," "The Great Silence," "Navel," and "Anxiety is the Dizziness Caused by Freedom" -
The Alchemist's Gate, free travel through time and space, how does the science fiction version of One Thousand and One Nights unfold?
Every breath I take brings the universe one step closer to death.
Free will doesn't exist, but until you believe it, it doesn't have any killing power.
Science fiction is full of artificial beings, like Athena emerging from Zeus's head, appearing fully formed. But consciousness doesn't work that way. What is the true life cycle of a software entity?
My babysitter is a machine. What does that mean to a newborn?
Our memories are constantly playing tricks on us, even though we don't realize it. How would civilization change if everyone started keeping a continuous life log?
We are not the center of the universe, but humans did not know this at first.
If parallel space does exist and conversations can take place, how would you use it to explore the possibilities of life?

2019-12-01

译林出版社

330

9787544779319