VENUS
Book ID/图书代码： 01360010B37514
English Summary/英文概要： The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases.
This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying.
His older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus, years before, and his father had always hated Van for surviving when his brother died. Now his father is offering a ten billion dollar prize to the first person to land on Venus and return his oldest son’s remains.
To everyone’s surprise, Van takes up the offer. But what Van Humphries will find on Venus will change everything--our understanding of Venus, of global warming on Earth, and his knowledge of who he is.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 金星地表温度极高，足以融化金属铝；空气压力极高，足以摧毁锡制太空船登陆器；天空长期笼罩在酸性云朵的阴霾；大气中弥漫着的尽是令人窒息的二氧化碳及有毒气体。综上所述，金星大地堪称太阳系最糟的地方，去那里等于自寻死路。可是范•汉弗莱（Van Humphries）非去不可。多年前，他和哥哥试图成为登上金星第一人，可是哥哥不幸丧生，他却奇迹生还，父亲因此一直无法原谅他，甚至高额悬赏找人再登金星寻回他儿子的遗骸。出乎所有人的意料，范决定亲自前往，而且无论他在金星上发现什么，都会改变我们对金星、地球温室效应以及他本人知识面的现有认识。(兼职翻译-XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况：堪萨斯之星（Kansas City Star）：“金星炙热无比。”
纽约时报（The New York Times）：“作者波娃以不可预见的方式证明了自己与磨难面前温和人物任务的同等性。”
图书馆杂志（Library Journal）：“作者此书不仅刻画了外星人和充满敌意的金星气氛，同时也是一个引人入胜、一个关于破碎的梦以及犹如金星本身的长期憎恨的冒险故事，并且出色地将生硬的科学活化在人物身上。富商马丁•汉弗莱（Martin Humphries）重金招贤纳士前往金星带回长子遗骸。他是两年前在金星失的踪。不料，接手的竟是富商自己的小儿子以及他自己的对手，也是最大的敌人。我推荐。”
罗兰•格林（Roland Green）， 书单（Booklist）：“作者此次将焦点放在了金星而非火星之上。范•汉弗莱乃亿万富翁之子，他的的哥哥死于登金星之无畏尝试。为了和另一队比拼，范决定亲自收回哥哥的尸体。作者之前所有的铺垫都只为衬托出金星环境的恐怖。尽管如此，还是为人类和环境抗争新添了一笔，为硬科幻作出了努力和贡献。”
About the Author/作者介绍： 本•波娃（Ben Bova）在科幻小说界已有40多个年头，曾任美国科幻小说作家主席、阿纳罗格（Analog）前编辑。他著有《火星》（Mars）等书，获奖无数。目前和妻子住在佛罗里达。比尔•伯格（Bill Pogue）是一名宇航员。 A six-time winner of the Hugo Award, a former editor of Analog, former editorial director of Omni, and past president of the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America, Ben Bova is the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction. He lives in Florida. Bill Pogue is an astronaut.
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