MOON DUST: IN SEARCH OF THE MEN WHO FELL TO EARTH

Book ID/图书代码： 06580005B03465

English Summary/英文概要： In 1999, Andrew Smith was interviewing Charlie Duke, astronaut and moon walker, for the Sunday Times. During the course of the interview, which took place at Duke’s Texan home, the telephone rang and Charlie left the room to answer it. When he returned, some twenty minutes later, he seemed visibly upset. It seemed that he’d just heard that, the previous day, one of his fellow moon walkers, the astronaut Pete Conrad, had died. The more Charlie spoke the more Andrew realised that his grief was something more than the mere fact of losing a friend. ’Now theres only nine of us,’ he said. Only nine. Which meant that, one day not long from now, there would be none, and when that day came, no one on earth would have known the giddy thrill of gazing back at us from the surface of the moon. The thought shocked Andrew, and still does. Moondust is his attempt to understand why. The Apollo moon programme has been called the last optimistic act of the 20th Century. Over a strange three year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys, and all were indelibly marked by it. In Moondust Andrew sets out to interview all the remaining astronauts who walked on the moon, and to find out how their lives were changed for ever by what had happened. ’Where do you go after you’ve been to the moon?’In addition to this question that would prove hugely troubling to many of the returned astronauts, they also had to deal with the fantasies of faceless millions at their backs, for this was the first truly global media event. The walkers would forever be caught between the gravitational pull of the moon and the earth’s collective dreaming.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在月球上行走过的宇航员中，现在在世的只剩九位了，也许在不久的将来，他们都会谢世：到那时就没人可以享受在浩瀚的宇宙仰望地球时的兴奋感。在《月亮粉尘》中，作者ANDREW SMITH着手寻找最后几位月球登陆者们，并对他们一一做了采访，了解到这样的一次超现实的冒险活动究竟给他们的生活也给我们的生活带去了什么变化。 ANDREW SMITH祖籍英国，出生在纽约，十几岁就搬到了加州。他在旧金山附近的家里观看了电视直播月球登陆的壮举。 1999年Andrew Smith接受《星期日泰姆士》的任务，专程采访了登月宇航员Charlie Duke。 采访是在Duke的得州老家进行的，在采访期间，电话铃声响了起来，Charlie起身离开房间去接电话，二十多分钟后，他一脸沮丧得回到屋里。他好象刚刚知道他的一位登月伙伴Pete Conrad昨天死了。Charlie说得越多，Andrew越是觉得Charlie悲伤的可不仅仅是失去了一位好朋友。“现在我们只剩九个了，”只有九个，这意味着不久的未来，一位都不剩….. 这让Andrew不寒而栗，而且这样的感觉久久散却不去。所以才有了这本《月亮粉尘》。阿波罗登月计划被誉为二十世纪的最后一次希望之举，在短短的三年里（1969-1972），十二位宇航员参加了最漫长、也是最古怪的旅行，而且他们也都因为这样的一趟光辉历程而在史册上留下了永不冥灭的印记。在与宇航员交流的过程中，他提的最多的一个问题，当然也是最让这些凯旋而归的宇航员头痛的问题就是“你去过月球了， 那接下来你想去哪？” 让宇航员头痛的问题还不止这个，因为月球计划是一项世人瞩目的大工程，全世界有无数双好奇的眼睛紧紧盯着他们。登月者们永远也摆脱不了月球的引力作用和地球上数百万人类共同梦想的重任

Awards/获奖情况：“这是一本兴奋，精彩的传记。我们知道阿波罗宇宙飞船里发生了什么？但有谁知道宇航员的脑袋里在想什么？他们从这个奇怪的旅行中恢复过来了吗？阅读此书很有启发。”——J.G. Ballard

“Smith巧妙地回忆了乐观观念和冷战偏执主义交杂的时代。但书中最吸引人的还是关于个人的故事。史密斯的描述和思考读起来都让人愉悦。本书是对20世纪英雄们的赞歌。”——GQ

“Smith很善于描述登月任务中的突发事件和飞船的摇晃。”——《独立报》

“这是文化历史、新闻报告个人故事的融合。史密斯揭露，我们对宇航员的向往和迷恋是因为我们可以将他们作为自己的镜子，从中看到我们自己。”——《Evening Standard》

“A wonderful collective biography written with deftness, compassion and humour.” (The Observer)

‘Utterly gripping. Smith is both sympathetic and bracingly unsentimental.” (Daily Mail (London)

‘Enthralling...Smith is an ideal narrator: sharp-eyed yet increasingly affectionate about his subjects.” (Financial Times )

“Riveting...so vivid you can almost smell the suburban lawns.” (Time Out London )

“Spellbinding…a provocative meditation on lunar travel and humanity’s relation to space.” (Business Week )

“A wild ride swerving between then and now.” (Richmond Times Dispatch )

“Smith’s book succeeds…because he bungee-cords together so many intriguing digressions.” (New York Times )

About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew Smith 是一位英国记者，曾为《Melody Maker》、《The Face》、《The Sunday Times》、 《The Observer》写作。他为BBC4拍摄过两个纪录片，一个是他游历美国，探索登月第一人的个人故事“成为阿姆斯特朗”；以及“To Kill a Mockingbird at 50”，关于Harper Lee将Monroeville, Alabama写入小说后，此人的变化。

这两部纪录片的拍摄激发他开始写作。随后就推出《月尘：月球漫步者访谈》。讲述了他穿越美国各州，采访1969-1972年间登月的9位宇航员。这部个人故事和时代伟大事件相结合的传记立马成为畅销小说。他的新书《奇形怪狀的網路：互聯網騙局》讲述了互联网诞生过程，以及早年的互联网泡沫。

Andrew Smith is a U.S. born British author. He is the author of Totally Wired: on the Trail of the Great Dotcom Swindle, which tells the story of the birth of the World Wide Web and subsequent dotcom bubble in New York at the end of the 1990s.

Smith also wrote Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, in which he travels across America in search of the nine surviving U.S. astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972.

Smith As a journalist he has written for Melody Maker, The Face, The Sunday Times, and The Observer. He has also written and presented two documentaries for BBC Four. The first, Being Neil Armstrong, is a trip across America to explore the personal history of the first person on the moon.The second, To Kill a Mockingbird at 50, about how Monroeville, Alabama has changed since it was used by Harper Lee as the setting for her novel.

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