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作者:
Orson Scott Card
出版社: Tor Books 副标题: An Ender Story (Ender) 出版年: 2007-10-30 页数: 126 定价: USD 12.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780765312822
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Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older st...
Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The children come from many nations, many religions; while they are being trained for war, religious conflict between them is not on the curriculum. But Dink Meeker, one of the older students, doesn't see it that way. He thinks that giving gifts isn't exactly a religious observation, and on Sinterklaas Day he tucks a present into another student's shoe.
This small act of rebellion sets off a battle royal between the students and the staff, but some surprising alliances form when Ender comes up against a new student, Zeck Morgan. The War over Santa Claus will force everyone to make a choice.
一九八五年到一九八六年是卡德作家生涯的重大转折点。凭借长篇版《安德的游戏》(Ender's Game,1985)和紧随其后的续集《死者代言人》(Speaker for the Dead,1986),卡德一举成名,连续两年包揽了“雨果”、“星云”这两大世界顶级科幻奖,创造了科幻史上的一个空前绝后的奇迹,从此他便跻身于一流长篇科幻小说作家的行列。
在卡德已经结束的系列中,由《地球的回忆》(The Memory of Earth,1992)、《地球的呼唤》(The Call of Earth,1993)、《地球飞船》(The Ships of Earth,1994)、《失控的地球》(Earthfall,1995)和《地球的新生》(Earthborn,1995)构成的“回家五部曲”是他最受欢迎的系列小说。这个系列的前三部故事都发生在一颗名为哈莫尼的殖民地星球上,而地球早已毁于四千万年前的一场核战。一台名为“超灵”的超级计算机中止了人类的进化,控制着哈莫尼星的一切,但千万年的光阴已经将这个旨在引导人们远离战争的超级计算机推到了“生命”的终点。“临终”前,“超灵”召集组建了一个由少年纳菲等人组成的、结构类似于家庭的组织,他们被赋予超能力,重返地球。这个系列的后两部顺理成章地从外层空间转回了地球。从宇宙归来的人类后裔惊讶地发现,原生地球人已经分化成了飞人、树人和地人;同时,拥有超能力的纳菲和他的哥哥艾尔马克的冲突也最终达到顶点……
卡德创作的独立长篇也很出色,例如《历史记录:哥伦布的救赎》(Pastwatch:The Redemption of Christopher Columbus,1996)就让人浮想联翩。小说中,时间旅行者试图阻止哥伦布发现美洲,而后,历史斗转星移,世界万象更新……
另外,卡德在写作理论上的研究也很小有成就,有多本理论书籍出版问世,其中最著名的就是《如何创作科幻小说与奇幻小说》(How to Write Science Fiction&Fantasy,1900)。
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