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The penultimate truth
Philip K. Dick · 初版 1964 年
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The Penultimate Truth 是美国作家 Philip K. Dick 于 1964 年出版的科幻小说。故事设定在未来的一个背景下，大部分人类被安置在巨大的地下避难所中。人们被告知地面上正在进行第三次世界大战，而实际上这场战争早在数年前就已结束。该小说改编自 Dick 1953 年的短篇小说 The Defenders。Dick 还在小说情节中借鉴了他的另外两部短篇小说：The Mold of Yancy 和 The Unreconstructed M。
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你可能会喜欢菲利普·K·迪克（Philip K. Dick）的《The Penultimate Truth》[1]。在这部 1964 年的小说中，世界发生了些许改变：统治者不再是“只给刚好平息起义的资源”，而是让大部分人口永远忙得不可开交，以此来支持…
You might like The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick[1]. In this 1964 novel the world has shifted slightly: Instead of giving "just enough to quell the uprisings", large parts of the population are just kept eternally busy to support the…
…未来）在想象如果拥有了合适的技术人们会如何写作时脑子里在想些什么。我之前在这些作品里见过类似构想：阿西莫夫的《Foundation and Empire》、菲利普·K·迪克的《The Penultimate Truth》、罗尔德·达尔的《The Great Automatic Grammatizator》。
…future) were thinking of when they imagined how people would write if they had the right technology. Places where I've already seen such stuff are Asimov's Foundation and Empire, Philip K. Dick's The Penultimate Truth, Roald Dahl's The Great Automatic Grammatizator.
…《The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch》和《Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?》，我们也看到了像《The Ganymede Takeover》、《The Game-Players of Titan》、《The Penultimate Truth》、《The Simulacra》，当然还有被全网喷烂的《The Crack in Space》这类平庸遗忘（有些甚至烂得出奇）的作品。可悲的事实是，迪克在那段时期靠嗑药（尤其是安非他命）来维持写作习惯。他…
…The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, we got forgettable (and in some cases quite terrible) books like The Ganymede Takeover, The Game-Players of Titan, The Penultimate Truth, The Simulacra, and of course the universally maligned The Crack in Space. The sad truth is that Dick was fueling his writing habit with drugs (particularly amphetamines) during this time period. He…
感谢帮我唤起记忆！我当时想的是短篇小说《The Defenders》，维基百科告诉我正是它启发了长篇《The Penultimate Truth》。我发现 PKD 的大多数（甚至可能全部？）长篇小说都是从同主题的短篇衍生出来的。
Thanks for refreshing my memory! I was thinking of the short story "The Defenders", which Wikipedia tells me it inspired the novel "The Penultimate Truth". I find most (maybe all?) of PKD's novels were born of a short story with the same theme.
PKD 写的《The Penultimate Truth》讲的就是这个。https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penultimate_Truth 可惜的是，那堵高墙也拦不住超级富豪们坐着自家的公务机从火人节赶回来。http://megagogo.co/
PKD wrote The Penultimate Truth about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penultimate_Truth Unfortunately the wall won't stop the super rich from returning from Burning Man in their corporate jets. http://megagogo.co/
你最近看《十二只猴子》（The 12 Monkeys）了？还是刚读了 PKD 的《The Penultimate Truth》？或者干脆就是《终结者》（Terminator），因为那部片好像也讲人类在地下生活。甚至可能是 1984 年的波兰电影《Sexmission》。又或者是斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆（Stanislaw Lem）讲五角大楼的《Memoirs Found in a Bathtub》…
You've been watching "the 12 monkeys" ? Or just read PKD's "The Penultimate Truth" ? Or even just "Terminator" because that seems to be about humanity's life underground. Or even the polish film "sexmission" from 1984. Or maybe Stanslaw Lem's "memoir found in a bathtub" about the pentagon…