凝聚
Coalescent
Stephen Baxter · 初版 2003 年
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Stephen Baxter拥有现代科幻界最卓越的头脑之一。他生动的叙事技巧使他足以比肩先辈巨匠：Clarke、Asimov、Stapledon。正如他的伟大前辈一样，Baxter以宇宙级的尺度展开思考，将前沿科学推演化为让人爱不释手的纯金之作。如今，Baxter带着一场扣人心弦的冒险归来，故事始于Roman Britain灾难性的崩溃，一路延伸至难以想象的遥远战乱未来，人类的命运正在银河系的中心静候……Destiny's Chil
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虽然这是一部科幻小说，但斯蒂芬·巴克斯特的《凝聚》（Coalescent，http://www.amazon.com/Coalescent-Stephen-Baxter/dp/034545785...）中（更精彩的）一半故事背景设定在4世纪的不列颠。当帝国的退潮波浪卷过时，没有任何其他作品能让我产生那种身临其境的感觉。
It's science fiction, but (the better) half of Stephen Baxter's Coalescent (http://www.amazon.com/Coalescent-Stephen-Baxter/dp/034545785...) is set in 4th c. Britain. Nothing else has given me that sense of being there when the wavefront of the empire receded.
……阿兰·摩尔 - 弗兰克·赫伯特的《沙丘》 - 米兰·昆德拉的《不朽》 - 斯蒂芬·金《黑暗塔》系列的前三本 - 斯蒂芬·金的《黑暗的另一半》 - 尼尔·盖曼的《睡魔》系列 - 斯蒂芬·巴克斯特的《凝聚》 - 乔治·奥威尔的《1984》 - 乔治·奥威尔的《动物庄园》 - 阿道司·赫胥黎的《美丽新世界》
…Alan Moore - Dune by Frank Herbert - Immortality by Milan Kundera - first 3 books in the The Dark Tower series by Stephen King - The Dark Half by Stephen King - The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman - Coalescent by Stephen Baxter - 1984 by George Orwell - Animal Farm by George Orwell - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
……另类时间线，涵盖行星际旅行（火星和土卫六），涉及 NASA 技术的使用。这两本书似乎都研究得很扎实，也很真实。另一本我真的很喜欢的书是《Coalescent》[2]。它是历史与科幻的融合：历史部分与我本人对西欧晚期罗马帝国的理解相符，而科学部分则更具推测性——一个人类……
…alternative time-line and cover inter-planetary journeys (Mars and Titan), involving the use NASA technology. Both books seem very well-researched and true-to-life. Another book I really enjoyed was Coalescent [2]. It’s a blend of historical and science fiction: the historical part tallies with my own understanding of the late Roman Empire in Western Europe while the science part is more speculative – a human…
“……任何对科幻、天主教以及教会充当人类记忆外挂存储器这一交集感兴趣的人……”再推荐一个：斯蒂芬·巴克斯特的《凝聚》-《奔腾》-《超越》（Coalescent-Exultant-Transcendant）三部曲。
"..anyone interested in the intersection of science fiction, Catholicism, and the Church functioning as external storage for the memory of the human race.." Another recommendation: the Coalescent-Exultant-Transcendant trilogy by Stephen Baxter.
这和我对这段历史（仅有）的一点了解完全吻合。想要通俗易懂——虽说是虚构的——去了解5世纪罗马治下不列颠的崩溃，斯蒂芬·巴克斯特在《凝聚》¹里写得相当漂亮。在书的第一部分，他描写了406年横渡（冰冻的）莱茵河²是如何引发北部高卢乃至罗马不列颠在政治和经济上的动荡的。那……
This aligns with what (little) I know about this historical period. For an accessible – albeit fictional – depiction of the collapse of 5th-century Roman Britain, Stephen Baxter does a good job of it in Coalescent¹. In the first part of the book, he describes how the crossing of the (frozen) river Rhein in 406² precipitated the political and economic destabilisation of Northern Gaul and then Roman Britain. The…
斯蒂芬·巴克斯特的书《凝聚》展现了人类蜂群思维是如何通过一系列既可能被强制推行、也可能单纯因环境而生的境况形成的。他提出的“真社会性演化”这个点子真特么令人毛骨悚然！https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalescent
Stephen Baxter's book Coalescent shows how a human hive mind could form via an set of circumstances that could be enforced or simply arise due to the environment. His "eusocial evolution" is a pretty damn creepy idea! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalescent