深渊上的火
A Fire upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge · 初版 1992 年
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- 巧妙构想出银河尺度的互联网与恶意病毒
- 塑造出思维真正异质的外星物种与社会
- 剧情推进中不断刷新对人物与局势的认知
在数千年后的未来，人类不再孤身居于宇宙之中。在这里，思维的潜能由其在空间中的位置所决定：从 Transcend 的超智慧实体，到仅有简单生物和技术才能运作的 Unthinking Depths 中的局限心智。无人知晓是何种奇异力量将空间分割为这些“思维区域”（regions of thought），但当交战中的 Straumli realm 将一件古老的超越界神器用作武器时，他们无意中释放出了一股可怕的力量，摧毁了数千个世界并奴役了所有自然与人工智能。面对……
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我得推荐弗诺·文奇的《深渊上的火》（A Fire Upon the Deep）和《天渊》（A Deepness in the Sky）。两部都是极棒的科幻小说，随着关于人物的更多细节展开，你最初的认知会被一点点推翻，而且故事情节跌宕起伏。尽管……
I'd have to recommend 'A deepness in the sky' and 'A fire upon the deep' by Vernor Vinge. Both really good science fiction books where your initial perception is slowly shown to be incorrect as more details appear about the characters, and with great storylines. Despite being…
我很喜欢弗诺·文奇的《深渊上的火》（A Fire Upon the Deep），以及它算作前传性质的《天渊》（A Deepness in the Sky），两部书都包含一些非常赞的脑洞，而且我太喜欢里面那些极具异质感的外星人了！哦对了，如果你还没读过道格拉斯·亚当斯的任何作品……
I'm fond of "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge, and its kind of prequel "A Deepness in the Sky", they both contain some great ideas and I love the fact they have some very alien aliens! Oh and if you haven't read any Douglas Adams…
……沉溺于把折磨、血腥暴力和精神虐待本身当作终极目的的艺术。如果你想找科幻小说作为严肃高雅艺术的代表，我个人推荐弗诺·文奇（尤其是《深渊上的火》和《天渊》）以及厄休拉·勒古恩。
…art that revels in torture, graphic violence and emotional abuse as an end unto itself. If you want an example of science fiction as high art, personally I would suggest Vernor Vinge (specifically A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky) and Ursula Le Guin.
如果你是文奇的粉丝，《深渊上的火》（A Fire Upon the Deep）的带注版绝对是个大宝藏（Kindle上有售）；里面包含了他在Emacs里写的笔记（正文带超链接），你可以看到人物是如何塑造出来的、他的编辑如何提出修改意见等等。看来他的这套工作流一直都没怎么变……
If you're a Vinge fan, the annotated version of A Fire Upon the Deep is a great find (available on Kindle); it has his emacs notes (linked in-text) and you can watch the characters develop, his editor suggest improvements, etc. Looks like his system hasn't changed all…
你只是读错了科幻小说而已。弗诺·文奇在《深渊上的火》（A Fire Upon the Deep）里最棒的构想之一就是一个银河系规模的互联网，而其中的终极恶意实体实际上就是个超级病毒。尼尔·斯蒂芬森的《雪崩》（Snow Crash）里也有你所描述的那种东西，同样构建了一个很棒的“信息经济”，……
You've just been reading the wrong science fiction. One of the great concepts in Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge is a galaxy wide internet and the malevolence in it is effectively just a super virus. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson has something what you describe also with a great "information economy",…
……作家们并不都具备对这种华丽语言的热爱或技巧。我从没想过有些读者可能不喜欢它。当我读一些备受赞誉的小说家，比如 Vernor Vinge 的《天渊》（A Fire Upon The Deep）时，我一次也没想过“哎呀，我肯定能写得比这更好！”我对用英语当作家的可能性不抱幻想，毕竟我连母语俄语都还没当成作家，但还是……
…writers don't share the love or skill for such flowery language. It never occured to me that some readers might not enjoy it. When I was reading some of the acclaimed fiction writers e.g. Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep" not once did I think "Heck, I bet I could write better than this!" I have no illusions of my chances of being a writer in English, when I haven't been one in my native Russian yet, but still. I would…