BORDERS OF INFINITY(3-NOVELLA COLLECTION)

Book ID/图书代码： 13005506B08737

English Summary/英文概要： Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, an extraordinary cosmic adventurer, heads to the limits of space in his roles as Space Service officer, mercenary, executioner, POW, and rescuer of damsels in distress.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是三个短篇故事的集合：《悲悼的群山》The Mountain of Mourning、《迷宫》Labyrinth、和《无尽的边界》Borders of Infinity。其中《悲悼的群山》得到1989年度星云和 1990年度雨果中篇小说奖。
在《悲悼的群山》里，迈尔斯到他的领地调查一桩杀婴案件。在他领地的封闭山区里，由于传统上对基因突变的害怕，仍然有杀害天生缺陷婴孩的风俗。身为一个领主，他必须导正这个习俗，但是他本身的残疾在保守封闭的居民眼中就已经是一个争议的焦点。如何维持领主的身份而不动用外力来让这些顽固的人民就范，的确不是那幺容易。
《迷宫》是他和杰克逊联邦的黑帮交锋的开始。面对唯利是图无法无天的黑帮头子，迈尔斯发现人性的善良面是更为有效的武器。
《无尽的边界》则是他个人组织魅力的表现。一开始他陷身西塔甘达的战俘营中，比约德的生花妙笔把读者带入他孤立无援的处境中，似乎都以为他被西塔甘达逮到了，真正情节的发展却大大出乎意料之外。不读到最后是不会了解他的行动的。(RH)

Awards/获奖情况：This is a collection of stories featuring Miles Vorkosigan. If you haven’t encountered Miles before, this is probably the best place to start. Deformed but brilliant, Miles is an aristocrat born into a culture where "aristocracy" still means "duty" rather than "privilege". Unfortunately, it’s also a culture that views the handicapped as mutants, objects of hatred and contempt. Miles is forced to challenge, again and again, the preconceptions of those around him. These are brilliant stories, written with wit, insight, and a strong sense of the tragicomic. "Mountains of Mourning" won a Hugo, I think, and one of the others was nominated. Even if you don’t like science fiction, you can still enjoy this book thoroughly. If you *do* like sf, you absolutely need to have this book. Bujold’s unadorned prose style has been compared to "Heinlein without the preaching", but this may be unfair... to Bujold. See for yourself why this woman keeps winning SF writing awards. Buy this book

About the Author/作者介绍： 洛伊斯•麦克马斯特•比约德，1949年生于美国俄亥俄州，是迄今为止获奖最多的女性科幻作家。
比约德从小便喜爱阅读，受父亲的影响开始看科幻小说。中学时代初尝写作但仅为自娱。成家之后，迫于生计，以及在作家好友的鼓励下，才真正踏上专业写作之途。
1986年以《Shards of Honor》名声鹊起，以此作衍生出极受欢迎的招牌系列《Vorkosigan Saga》。她的创作迭获佳评与奖项肯定，包括三度星云奖、五度雨果奖。此外，作品也经常在《轨迹》杂志举办的最佳年度小说票选榜上名列前茅。近年又新开奇幻小说《五神传说》等系列，再度大放光彩。育有一对子女，现居美国明尼苏达州。
Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science fiction world in 1986 with the first of the Miles Vorkosigan Saga novels, Shards of Honor. She has won the Hugo award four times, and the Nebula award twice.Her short story, Labyrinth won first place in Analog Magazine’s annual awards.Having already created a classic hero in the form of Miles Vorkosigan, and captured a cult following the process, Lois McMaster Bujold now takes up her prolific pen to produce an epic of the most fantastic magnitude. A brilliant and detailed landscape populated with illustrious and demonic characters, ushers the arrival of a hero for the twenty-first century.

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