…exceptions where the whole story itself is narrated from the perspective of someone telling a story, but those are notable exceptions for having a weird narrative gimmick (e.g. the excellent but dated Icehenge is written in the past tense because it consists of personal diary entries).
……最后去了 NASA 工作。最近我决定回头重读那套三部曲，结果发现自己连第一本都不愿意读完。我就是受不了。所以你不是一个人。不过你可能会喜欢《Icehenge》。它更像是一部独立小说（其实更像是三部中篇），设定在同一个宇宙里，但情节集中，政治基本被 relegated 到背景。这是一本被严重低估的书，……
…ended up working at NASA. Recently I decided to go back and re-read the trilogy and found myself unwilling to finish even the first book. I just couldn't stand it. So you're not alone. You might like Icehenge though. It works more as a stand-alone novel (or 3 novellas, really) set in the same universe, but with a focused plot and the politics mostly relegated to the background. It's a very under-rated book,…
……但我坚持读完了。而且我还挺喜欢的。非常喜欢。好吧，里面的大尺度描写确实有点震撼，不过那时候我也读过更露骨的了。令我惊讶的是，我发现金·史丹利·罗宾逊（Kim Stanley Robinson）的科幻小说《Icehenge》——那是我 7 年前、在一个更容易受影响的年纪翻来覆去读了好几遍的书——在很大程度上是对《Justine》的致敬。至少其中间部分是。它甚至包含了一个科幻版的……
…But I persevered. And I liked it. Very much. Well, the sex scenes were kinda shocking but by that time I've read more explicit ones. And to my surprise I discovered that the science fiction novel Icehenge, by Kim Stanley Robinson, which I read and re-read and re-read 7 years prior at even a more impressionable age, was very much a tribute to Justine. At least its middle part. It even includes a science-fiction…
Reminds me of an old Kim Stanley Robinson SF novel called Icehenge, which as I remember it revolves around life extension without corresponding memory preservation, so that history becomes a way of understanding your own past. I think it did interesting things with the…
I tried that not long after reading Icehenge, but didn't really get on with it. Again, that was decades ago, so maybe I should give it another look. Gene Wolfe does tend to reward older readers; I'm pretty sure most of his Urth books whooshed right…
……例外情况是，整个故事本身就是从某个正在讲故事的人的视角叙述的，但那些之所以是显著的例外，是因为它们用了奇怪的叙事花招（比如出色但过时的《Icehenge》是用过去时写的，因为它由私人日记条目组成）。
…exceptions where the whole story itself is narrated from the perspective of someone telling a story, but those are notable exceptions for having a weird narrative gimmick (e.g. the excellent but dated Icehenge is written in the past tense because it consists of personal diary entries).
……最后去了 NASA 工作。最近我决定回头重读那套三部曲，结果发现自己连第一本都不愿意读完。我就是受不了。所以你不是一个人。不过你可能会喜欢《Icehenge》。它更像是一部独立小说（其实更像是三部中篇），设定在同一个宇宙里，但情节集中，政治基本被 relegated 到背景。这是一本被严重低估的书，……
…ended up working at NASA. Recently I decided to go back and re-read the trilogy and found myself unwilling to finish even the first book. I just couldn't stand it. So you're not alone. You might like Icehenge though. It works more as a stand-alone novel (or 3 novellas, really) set in the same universe, but with a focused plot and the politics mostly relegated to the background. It's a very under-rated book,…
……但我坚持读完了。而且我还挺喜欢的。非常喜欢。好吧，里面的大尺度描写确实有点震撼，不过那时候我也读过更露骨的了。令我惊讶的是，我发现金·史丹利·罗宾逊（Kim Stanley Robinson）的科幻小说《Icehenge》——那是我 7 年前、在一个更容易受影响的年纪翻来覆去读了好几遍的书——在很大程度上是对《Justine》的致敬。至少其中间部分是。它甚至包含了一个科幻版的……
…But I persevered. And I liked it. Very much. Well, the sex scenes were kinda shocking but by that time I've read more explicit ones. And to my surprise I discovered that the science fiction novel Icehenge, by Kim Stanley Robinson, which I read and re-read and re-read 7 years prior at even a more impressionable age, was very much a tribute to Justine. At least its middle part. It even includes a science-fiction…
让我想起金·史丹利·罗宾逊的一部老科幻小说《Icehenge》，印象里它是围绕“寿命得以延长却无法同步保留记忆”展开的，于是历史就成了一种理解自己过去的方式。我觉得它在处理……方面很有意思。
Reminds me of an old Kim Stanley Robinson SF novel called Icehenge, which as I remember it revolves around life extension without corresponding memory preservation, so that history becomes a way of understanding your own past. I think it did interesting things with the…
读完《Icehenge》之后不久我试过那本，但没怎么读进去。再说，那也是几十年前的事了，也许我该再给它一次机会。Gene Wolfe 确实往往更眷顾年长一些的读者；我很确定他那些 Urth 系列的书大部分都从我脑子里嗖地飞过去了……
I tried that not long after reading Icehenge, but didn't really get on with it. Again, that was decades ago, so maybe I should give it another look. Gene Wolfe does tend to reward older readers; I'm pretty sure most of his Urth books whooshed right…