野兽之数
The Number of the Beast
Robert A. Heinlein · 初版 1980 年
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为什么值得读
- 包含语音指令穿梭平行宇宙的奇特脑洞
- 展现凭借想象力显化多元宇宙的科幻构想
Heinlein迷David Potter在alt.fan.heinlein上解释道（该帖后来被转载于Heinlein Society）：整本书实际上是“有史以来最优秀的叙事小说教材之一，它在前台展现了一组极其精彩的‘千万别这么写’的反面教材，同时在后台不断解释如何正确写作，并列举了切实做到这一点的作家与书籍作为文学参照。”他指出，“每当前台出现一段枯燥的说教或乏味的人物互动时，后台就会同步给出一个如何正确处理的典范……
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……那些持否定态度的人是打哪儿来的想法。海因莱因自己始终坚称他写作主要是为了娱乐读者，尽管他有时确实有点爱说教。我最早接触到的海因莱因作品是我十几岁时看的《野兽的数目》。会飞的汽车、居心叵测的“外来生物”、单靠想象就能具现化的多元宇宙……对于一个梦想有一天成为核物理学家的孩子来说……
…where naysayers are coming from. Heinlein himself always maintained he wrote primarily to entertain, even though he can get kind of preachy at times. The very first Heinlein I got my hands on was The Number of the Beast--, while I was a teenager. Flying cars, non-benevolent Other Beings, multiverses possibly made manifest through the sheer act of imagining it... For a kid who dreamt of one day becoming a nuclear physicist…
我很喜欢海因莱因《野兽的数目》里的那个脑洞：给泽布·卡特的福特车装上“时空连续体”装置，并且通过对车载电脑下达语音指令来穿梭于平行宇宙。说真的，无数次我堵在路上时，都在心里巴望着能喊一声“jump deety”，然后立马……
I liked the idea of outfitting Zeb Carter's Ford with a "continua" device in Heinlein's Number of the Beast and programming it so it would move through parallel universes via voice command to the onboard computer. Can't tell you how many times I've sat in traffic and wished I could say "jump deety" and immediately…
我觉得这是他写过的最烂的两本书之一。（另一个候选是《野兽的数目》。）发这条只是想劝大家千万别从这本入坑，免得被直接劝退、一辈子都不想再碰海因莱因。他这个人还是足够有意思的，所以我连这些大烂作都啃过。
I thought it one of the two worst books he ever wrote. (The other candidate being The Number of the Beast.) Just posting this to discourage anyone from starting there and being turned off Heinlein for life. He's interesting enough that I tried even the stinkers.
……《天倾》（厄休拉·勒古恩）、《浮士德》（歌德）、《Anathem》（斯蒂芬森）、《失乐园》（弥尔顿）、《泰坦神的海妖》（冯内古特）、《调解者之爪》（吉恩·沃尔夫）、《新日之乌尔斯》（吉恩·沃尔夫）、《野兽的数目》（海因莱因）、《波多里诺》（翁贝托·埃科）、《圣殿春秋》（肯·福莱特）、《禅与摩托车维修艺术》（皮尔西格）、《我，机器人》（阿西莫夫）
…Heaven (Ursula Le Guin), Faust (Goethe), Anathem (Stephenson), Paradise Lost (Milton), The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut), The Claw of the Conciliator (Gene Wolfe), The Urth of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe), The Number of the Beast (Heinlein), Baudolino (Umberto Eco), The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follet), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig), I Robot (Asimov)
我不确定我会不会推荐《进入盛夏之门》，依我看它和《野兽的数目》以及《严酷的月亮》一起，并列海因莱因最拉胯的作品之列。作为入门书，我通常会推荐《严厉的月亮》或者他写的某部少年科幻。
Not sure I'd suggest The Door into Summer, it's one of the weakest books from Heinlein imho together with the Number of the Beast and I Will Fear No Evil. I'd usually recommend the Moon is a Harsh Mistress or one of his juveniles as the first book.
我记得那个版本的设定出自海因莱因的《野兽的数目》。他在自己的版本里加的细节是：你可以随时重新评估自己的财产价值，但必须立刻按照新估值补缴过去 5 年的税款。这就意味着你可以一直维持较低的估值……
The version of that that I recall was from Heinlein's Number of the Beast. The detail he added in his version was that you could reassess your property at any time, but you had to pay 5 years of back taxes at the new value immediately. This means you can sit at a low value…