傀儡主人
The Puppet Masters
Robert A. Heinlein · 初版 1951 年
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起初有消息称一艘飞碟坠落于爱荷华州。随后官方宣布整起事件只是一场恶作剧。故事完结，案子了结。然而，美国政府最机密的谍报机构派往现场的两名特工在未作任何汇报的情况下失踪了。紧接着派出的四名后续特工也同样失踪。于是该机构负责人与其麾下的两名顶尖特工亲赴现场，并设法带着重大发现逃了出来：一场入侵正在展开，入侵者是蛞蝓状的外星生物，只要接触到人类就能完全控制其心智。人类知道什么，它们就知道什么。蛞蝓
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……日常裸体主义的好处；但在他的巅峰时期，他几乎是一位无与伦比的作家和故事大师。尤其是他的《严厉的月亮》，堪称经典中的经典；《傀儡主人》更是如此，甚至催生出了整整一个充斥着二流模仿作品的亚流派；如果要来点轻松的，他那部常被忽略的《进入盛夏之门》是个温馨的故事，里面皆大欢喜，……
…the benefits of casual nudism; in his prime, though, he was an author and storyteller practically beyond compare. In particular, his The Moon is a Harsh Mistress remains a classic among classics; The Puppet Masters even more so, to the extent of spawning practically a whole subgenre of second-rate imitations; and, for a lighter entry, his oft-overlooked The Door into Summer is a sweet story in which all's well that…
……在其中穿梭，随时可以扔进 memex 并在那里扩展开来。我还可以说，在 1951 年，海因莱因就深知做研究远不止是‘狭隘的文献检索’。看看当年出的《傀儡主人》第四章：> “在图书馆里，我走向目录卡片柜，戴上眼罩，开始扫描检索参考资料。‘飞碟’导向了‘飞盘’，然后是‘飞碟计划’，接着是‘光……
…running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. I can also say that in 1951 Heinlein was well aware that research was much more than 'narrow document retrieval'. Consider "The Puppet Masters" from that year, chapter IV: > "At the library I went to the catalogue, put on blinkers and started scanning for references. "Flying Saucers" led to "Flying Disks," then to "Project Saucer," then "Lights…
……变成这样一个故事：一个神一般的实体降临，把那群自由意志主义者从无法与他人协作的困境中拯救出来，然后在我们还没来得及对它的存在提出任何质问之前就消失了；或者觉得《傀儡主人》枯燥乏味（行行行，我知道了，康米很坏），而且证明了海因莱因并不擅长推演自己设定的后果……我从那群满嘴‘人文学科是关于……’的人那里吃到了不少牢骚。
…be a story about a god-like entity that appears, saves the libertarians from their inability to play well with others, and then disappears before we get to ask any questions about its existence, or The Puppet Masters to be tedious (yeah, I get it, commies bad) and to demonstrate that Heinlein wasn't very good at seeing the consequences of his ideas,...I get a lot of crankiness from the same "humanities are about…
唔。科幻里有一些套路，一旦你开始留意就会觉得太明显了。比如看看《天外魔花》（Invasion of the Body Snatchers）或者海因莱因的《傀儡主人》：讲的就是“康米潜伏在我们身边”，这也难怪它在 1950 年代会成为一件大事。尽管那种“身边有一帮外表和行为举止完全正常的人，实际上却……”的设定确实很带感。
Hmm. There are some science fiction tropes that become really obvious when you start looking for them. For one, check out Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Heinlein's Puppet Masters: that's "the Commies are among us", and it's not surprising that it became a significant thing in the 1950s. Although the idea that there are a group of people out there who look and act completely normal…