作者：NealStephenson
出版社：WilliamMorrow
副标题：ANovel
出版年：2015-5-19
页数：880
定价：USD35.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780062190376
内容简介
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.
What would happen if the world were ending?
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .
Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.
作者简介
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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system.
Born in Fort Meade, Maryland (home of the NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum) Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubs "propeller heads". His father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, while her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1960 and then to Ames, Iowa in 1966 where he graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson furthered his studies at Boston University. He first specialized in physics, then switched to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.
Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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刚读完part1，技术细节描写太细致了，原理、外貌、大小数据都有，太适合拍成电影或电视剧了。梦想将来可以把读过的一些优秀小说都改编成电影，然而我似乎与电影专业又很遥远。。。 2018 update：太多information dump，读到空间站生存那段就弃书了，还剩800多页实在读不下去
读这本书带给我一种越来越少体验到的感觉：最初和文学，和新世界接触的惊奇。Neal Stephenson是个奇怪的家伙，尽管他自陈其文学目标是将一个好故事，但在这本书中，他却把自己对机械的迷恋推进到前所未有的程度。经常用几页去描述一个自己很得意的设计。第一次读的人需要保持耐心。
大洪水将月球炸裂成相互撞击的七块，经计算两年内即将有持续5000年的陨石雨，你球药丸！人类药丸！人类可以灭亡,但是马克思主义的真理还要继续。在苏维埃的最后时刻,全体公民目送了经过拣选的革命女性和作为试管婴儿专家的男性登上了国际空间站，以便在太空航行的过程中繁衍革命火种。她们肩负着革命和人类的未来，搭建方舟新苏维埃,那里有水、有氧气、有适宜的重力。革命将继续,苏维埃将在天空中闪烁。
看完了，很多细节描写非常美，比方cradle。科幻机械情节设定也非常独出心裁。但是我好像无法接受宇航人类会那么和平民主。存活下来的人类社会更像digger的可能性更大。／／刚看到33%。好看，有一点点三体的设定，加上火星救援似的硬科幻和细节描写。。。原书里有没有图纸什么的啊！好多空间站的描述读的痛苦死了，就不能画张图吗？！
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