THE GAMES

Book ID/图书代码： 01240011B44720

English Summary/英文概要： This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think.

Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United States to the gold in every previous event. But the other countries are catching up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming Games, Silas’s boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten.

The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not even Silas, with all his genius and experience, can understand the horror he had a hand in making. And no one, he fears, can anticipate the consequences of entrusting the act of creation to a computer’s cold logic.

Now Silas races to understand what the computer has wrought, aided by a beautiful xenobiologist, Vidonia João. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural strength, speed, and—most disquietingly—intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific curiosity giving way to a most unexpected emotion: sheer terror.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這是一部來自Ted Kosmatka擺脫倫理的扣人心弦的科幻故事，入圍美國科幻小說星雲獎和史鐸金紀念獎的驚人首作。故事背景設置在沒有道德界限的未來，在一項奧運項目中，因基因改造工程而展開的殊死鬥爭。
Silas Williams是一位優秀的遺傳學家，他正著手為美國進入奧林匹克角鬥競賽作準備，國際間對於這項血腥的運動只有一條規則：以參賽者而設計的DNA不允許有人類的基因。Silas靠呼吸遺傳學維持生存；他的設計使得美國在先前的每次參賽中奪得金牌。但其他國家正在迎頭趕上。現在，他矗立在即將到來的比賽絕望的邊緣，Silas的老闆為了參賽角鬥士不被擊敗，正投入到由超級電腦來設計基因代碼的實驗中。
實驗結果是誕生了高度專業化的殺人機器，這一基因組在地球上從未見過。甚至連Silas都未曾見識過，用他畢生的才賦和經驗，可以獲悉經他那手製作出的恐怖機器。他擔心，而且也沒有人，可以預見到，經由電腦的冰冷嚴密的邏輯思維所創造出的產物，所引發的行為後果。
現在Silas通過這種美麗的智慧鐵甲生物Vidonia João的協助，漸漸瞭解到電腦是如何設計製造的。尚未快速增長的角鬥士驗證了超自然的力量，速度，和最令人不安的智慧，Silas和Vidonia發現他們的科學好奇心取代了最意想不到的感慨：令人不寒而慄的恐怖。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：“嚴謹的科學理念和對細節細微入致的觀察，呈現出這部以驚悚為主的小說，作品汲取了Crichton和Koontz的精髓”—— 《出版人週刊》[星際評論]

“非常像邁克爾•克萊頓曾寫過的一些東西… 這是一部傑出的首作；很期待Kosmatka的下一部作品”
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Praise for The Games and Ted Kosmatka

"Exacting science and meticulous attention to detail provide the backbone for this thriller, which blends the best of Crichton and Koontz." ---Publishers Weekly [Starred review]

"Very like something Michael Crichton might have written...An outstanding debut novel; expect big things from Kosmatka." ---Booklist [Starred Review]

“Modern SF started with something like E. E. Smith’s The Skylark of Space and progressed to Jack Williamson’s The Legion of Space, then to Heinlein’s classics, and on through the work of Larry Niven, John Varley, Greg Egan, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow—and now, writers like Ted Kosmatka.”---Jonathan Strahan

In this tense debut, Kosmatka embraces scientific horror, envisioning a future in which genetic engineering is used to create terrible crossbreeds. These creatures are pitted against each other as gladiators in the Olympic Games, with fortunes and careers riding on each battle. While most competitors resemble their natural “parents,” America’s latest creation is unique, designed by an ultra-advanced AI that was given one simple operating directive: survive the competition. As the nameless gladiator grows to maturity, it demonstrates feral cunning and intelligence, a taste for human flesh, and a murderous agenda. Now Silas Williams, the head of the U.S. gladiatorial program, and Vidonia João, a brilliant xenobiologist, must unravel the monster’s genetic secrets before things get out of hand. Exacting science and meticulous attention to detail provide the backbone for this thriller, which blends the best of Crichton and Koontz.
-- Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： Ted Kosmatka 在印第安那州西北部出生長大，在搬至太平洋西北部地區前，他一直在各實驗室工作超過十幾年。他的短篇小說已被美國科幻星雲獎和史鐸金紀念獎提名。他現在為電子遊戲產業工作，在那裡他可以在維爾福軟體公司全身心從事寫作工作。

Ted Kosmatka was born and raised in northwest Indiana and spent more than a decade working in various laboratories there before moving to the Pacific Northwest. His short fiction has been nominated for both the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He now works in the videogame industry where he’s a full-time writer at Valve, home of Half-Life, Portal and Dota 2.

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