《童年的终结》封面

童年的终结

Childhood’s End

Arthur C. Clarke · 初版 1952 年

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为什么值得读

  • 带来情感冲击力极强的人类终结故事
  • 属于让人愿意随时重读的科幻代表作

Childhood's End 是英国作家 Arthur C. Clarke 于 1953 年出版的科幻小说。故事讲述了神秘的 Overlords 对地球发动的和平外星入侵,他们的到来终结了所有战争,促成了世界政府的建立,并将地球变成了一个接近乌托邦的世界。人们对这些外星人的身世和使命提出了诸多疑问,但他们避而不答,宁愿留在飞船中实施间接统治。数十年后,Overlords 终于现身,他们对人类文化的影响开创了一个黄金时代(Golden Age)。然而,地球上的最后一代儿童却开

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  • 《七夏娃》(Seveneves)的前三分之一简直让人心里挨了重重一拳。对我来说,在情感冲击力上唯一能与之匹敌的世界末日题材故事,就是阿瑟·C·克拉克(Arthur C. Clarke)的《童年的终结》(Childhood's End)了。斯蒂芬森(Stephenson)既展现了人类所有现实中的混乱不堪,却又总算让你感到欣慰与自豪——在绝境之中,人类终究大部分还是团结一致,拼尽全力去保留生命的火种……

    The first third of Seveneves is a real gut punch. The only other world-ending story that comes close in terms of emotional impact for me was Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End". Stephenson manages to show humanity in all its realistic messiness but still leave you proud -- on balance -- that humans mostly get our act together in a desperate attempt to preserve a seed of life…

  • …- 《死水》(Dead Wake)- 《活出意义来》(Man's Search for Meaning)- 《扫地出门》(Evicted)- 《新吉姆·克劳》(The New Jim Crow)- 《夜》(Night)科幻类:- 《我们》(We)- 《泰坦妖女》(The Sirens of Titan)- 《海伯利安》(Hyperion)- 《你一生的故事》(Stories of Your Life)- 《科学怪人》(Frankenstein)- 《三尖树时代》(The Day of the Triffids)- 《童年的终结》(Childhood's End)奇幻类:- 《飓光志》(The Stormlight Archives)- 《第一律法三部曲》(The First Law Trilogy)- 《魔戒》(The Lord of the Rings)文学类:- 《局外人》(The Stranger)- 《都柏林人》(Dubliners)- 《我从死亡中学到的事》(Things I've Learned from Dying)- 《他们携带的事物》(The Things They Carried)- 《云图》(Cloud Atlas)…

    …- Dead Wake - Man's Search for Meaning - Evicted - The New Jim Crow - Night Sci-fi: - We - The Sirens of Titan - Hyperion - Stories of Your Life - Frankenstein - The Day of the Triffids - Childhood's End Fantasy: - The Stormlight Archives - The First Law Trilogy - The Lord of the Rings Literature: - The Stranger - Dubliners - Things I've Learned from Dying - The Things They Carried - Cloud Atlas…

  • 阿瑟·克拉克的《童年的终结》(Childhood's End)是我的推荐,虽然我不太确定它算不算 comp-fi(计算机科幻)流派。

    Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End would be my recommendation though I'm not sure how it falls into the comp-fi genre.

  • …On Fire” 还有原版的《人猿星球》(Planet Of The Apes)。差点忘了——怎么也得来一本奥尔迪斯(Aldiss)。我最喜欢的是《A概率报告》(Report On Probability A),不过这书挺挑人的。[编辑——居然没有阿瑟·C·克拉克?连《童年的终结》都没有?]

    …On Fire" Also, the original "Planet Of The Apes". I almost forgot -- at least one Aldiss. My fave is "Report On Probability A", but it's an acquired taste. [edit -- no Arthur C. Clarke? Not even "Childhood's End"?]

  • …功劳。可能一部分原因是他不属于西欧作家的圈子?不管怎么说,我觉得:海因莱因的《严厉的月亮》(Moon is a Harsh Mistress)、勒古恩的《一无所有》(The Dispossessed)、贝斯特的《群星,我的归宿》(The Stars My Destination)、克拉克的《童年的终结》(Childhood's End)绝对是我的最爱之一。我很不擅长列什么 top-5 榜单,但要是地上没堆着另外 50 本书的话,这几本我分分钟会抓起来重读一遍…

    …credit. Maybe part of it is not being in the Western European writer's camp? At any rate, I would say: Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein The Dispossessed, Le Guin The Stars My Destination, Bester Childhood's End, Clarke Stand out as some of my favorites. I'm pretty terrible at making top-5 lists, but those stand out as ones that I would read again in a heartbeat if there weren't already 50 books on the floor…

  • …《严厉的月亮》(海因莱因)《异乡异客》(海因莱因)《星船伞兵》(海因莱因)《暗黑扫描仪》(迪克)《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗?》(迪克)《银河系漫游指南》(亚当斯)《童年的终结》(克拉克)《机器人系列》(阿西莫夫)《双百人》(阿西莫夫)《美丽新世界》(赫胥黎)

    …Mistress (Heinlein) Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein) Starship Troopers (Heinlein) A Scanner Darkly (Dick) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams) Childhood's End (Clarke) Robot series (Asimov) Bicentennial Man (Asimov) Brave New World (Huxley)

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