从未到来的石头
The stone that never came down
John Brunner · 初版 1973 年
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世界充斥着社会衰败、军事政变和革命政府，成群的信徒（“Godheads”）游荡在街头，将塑料十字架化为突击武器。一名科学家发现了一种名为 VC 的新型病毒药物，拥有彻底改变人类心智的力量。它或许能拯救文明，但要付出何种代价？又有谁有权决定是否使用它？这是 Brunner 兼具发人深省的思想性与扣人心弦的情节张力的巅峰之作。
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我得回去重读一下《赞吉巴尔之岛》（Stand on Zanzibar）。当年我读八年级时，读了布鲁纳的《永不落下的石头》（The Stone that Never Came Down），当时我觉得那是我读过的最好的科幻小说（它在相当长一段时间内都稳居我的榜首）。那会儿我一直没找到《赞吉巴尔》的单行本。
I need to go back and read Stand on Zanzibar. Back when I was in 8th grade, I read Brunner's The Stone that Never Came Down which I thought at the time was the best SF novel I'd ever read (it held my top spot for some considerable time). I never found a copy of Stand at the time.
布鲁纳有着惊人的先见之明，但遗憾的是现在几乎被人们遗忘了。另参见《永不落下的石头》（The Stone that Never Came Down）——有史以来最具 70 年代风格的小说。
Brunner was amazingly prescient, but sadly almost forgotten now. See also The Stone that Never Came Down - the most 70s novel ever.
……对它进行反驳。它让在令人窒息的企业科技反乌托邦中生存变成了一件很酷的事。这是歌颂，而不是批判。对比一下菲利普·K·迪克（PKD），或者像约翰·布鲁纳（John Brunner）在《永不落下的石头》（The Stone That Never Came Down）和《冲击波骑士》（The Shockwave Rider）等鲜为人知的作品中的描绘——后者显然对吉布森产生了影响。
…counter about it. It makes surviving in a white knuckle corporate techno-dystopia cool. It's a celebration, not a critique. Compare with PKD or the much less well-known John Brunner in books like The Stone That Never Came Down and The Shockwave Rider - the latter being an obvious influence on Gibson.