ZIMA BLUE AND OTHER STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 10010010B34651
English Summary/英文概要： A fabulous collection spanning the galaxies and career of SF superstar Alastair Reynolds
Reynolds’ pursuit of truth is not limited to wide-angle star smashing - not that stars don’t get pulverised when one character is gifted (or cursed) with an awful weapon by the legendary Merlin. Reynolds’ protagonists find themselves in situations of betrayal, whether by a loved one’s accidental death, as in ’Signal to Noise’, or by a trusted wartime authority, in ’Spirey and the Queen’. His fertile imagination can resurrect Elton John on Mars in ’Understanding Space and Time’ or make prophets of the human condition out of pool-cleaning robots in the title story.
But overall, the stories in ZIMA BLUE represent a more optimistic take on humanity’s future, a view that says there may be wars, there may be catastrophes and cosmic errors, but something human will still survive.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Reynold追求的真相並不局限於廣闊無垠的星體塵埃 — 那些星塵粉末不是由傳奇的Merlin用一種可怕的具有特性（或詛咒）的武器發射而來。Reynold的跟隨者們發現他們深陷於背叛的情形之中，而這一情況不管是由所愛之人的意外死亡，還是像’雜訊信號’，或是由受信任的戰時管理局，還是’Spirey 和女王’而引發。他豐富的想像力可以令Elton John能夠在火星上’所知的空間和時間’中存活，或是使標題故事中預言以人類條件的機器人來說成為可能。但總的來說，《藍色齊馬》中故事代表了作者對人類未來更為樂觀的態度，對於可能發生戰爭，災難和宇宙發生的失誤的一些看法，但總有一些人類能頑強的倖存下來。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况："Reynolds’s second collection contains 14 stories and novellas, ranging from a near-future, character-based exploration of love and quantum reality set in Cardiff, to far-future space operas packed with seat-of-the-pants action and cutting-edge ideas. He’s noted for big novels that combine storylines strung out across aeons with mind-blowing cosmological theory, and he’s just as successful at presenting these concepts in the more constraining form of the short story."---Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN "Reynold’s is most definitely a writer’s writer. He knows how to weld big ideas to real emotions."---Jonathan Wright SFX
"This is clever stuff, and consistently well realised."---Matt Bielby DEATHRAY
About the Author/作者介绍： Alastair Reynolds(阿拉斯泰爾•雷諾茲) 1966年生於南威爾士，就讀於Newcastle和 St Andrews大學並獲得天文學博士學位。1991年，他移居荷蘭，在歐洲宇航局擔任天體物理研究工作。他的前三部作品中 Revelation Space 獲 Arthur C. Clarke 和 英國科技小說獎的提名； Chasm City獲得了英國科技小說獎， 第三部為Redemprion Ark，也是榜上有名的暢銷書。
Reynolds完成了他星際小說的三部曲。 在他的第一部小說 REVELATION SPACE中為我們打下了銀河星際大戰的伏筆，在本集中，他將我們帶入了未來時空，人類面臨著 Inhibitors的挑戰， Inhibitors是一群沒有思想的機器人，他們想滅絕一切太空中出 現的文明。他們最新的目標是人類，但有一小部分人類擁有了武器和技術，可以與 Inhibitors抗衡，但從長遠來看，最好的方法還是離開這個空間。
Alastair Reynolds的這部作品可讀性極強，書中的人物牽動讀者的心，對太空 美麗和災難的描寫也淋漓盡致。是一部極其出色的太空歌劇。
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, near Leiden. He gave up working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. Revelation Space and Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Revelation Space, Absolution Gap and Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and Chasm City won the BSFA, and Diamond Dogs was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award.
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