CAPTIVE DREAMS
Book ID/图书代码： 13005513B60680
English Summary/英文概要： ’Mike Flynn’s stories begin by intriguing your brain and end by piercing your heart. Few other writers can combine cutting-edge science and emotional situations with Flynn’s skill and sensitivity. Read these stories, and you will never forget Mae Holloway, nor Ethan Seakirt, nor Karen Brusco, nor any of the others who must live with the dilemmas that even the most hopeful science can bring.’--New York Times Bestselling Author Nancy Kress
Fine literary writing meets Science Fiction. A thematic tour-de-force exploring the concept of being human through the eyes of imperfect protagonists struggling with their demons. More than just great SF, these are just great stories told with style, wit and sensitivity. Six memorable stories, each independent, but each tangentially touching on the others. Melodies of the Heart, Captive Dreams, Hopeful Monsters, Places Where the Roads Don’t Go, Remember’d Kisses, Buried Hopes
’Michael Flynn has quietly become one of the best sf writers of our time. CAPTIVE DREAMS shows his intelligence, his compassion, and the dry wit with which he seasons them both. Don’t miss it!’--New York Times Bestselling Author Harry Turtledove
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 麦克弗林(Mike Flynn)的故事以扣人心弦的情节开始，以震撼人心的结局而结束。除他之外，很少有作家可以利用弗林的技巧和敏感来将尖端科技和情感波折结合起来。读完这些故事后，
你不会忘记小说里的这些人物。——纽约时报畅销书作者南希•克瑞斯(Nancy Kress)
优秀的文学作品能与科幻小说珠联璧合。这篇力作透过与自己的恶魔相斗争的人们的视角，探索了人类的概念。这本小说不仅是一本极好的科幻小说，这些故事结合了时尚，智慧和敏感的元素。六个难忘的故事,每一个故事都是独立的,但每一个都自然地触及别人的内心深处。
本书有七个篇章：《心灵的旋律》，《迷梦》，《有前途的怪兽》，《路到不了的地方》，《珍藏的吻》，《被深埋的希望》。
迈克尔•弗林（Michael Flynn）已悄然成为我们这个时代最优秀的科幻小说家之一。 《迷梦》展现了他的聪明，同情心以及才智。不要错过它! ——《纽约时报》畅销书作家哈里特托多夫（Susie）
Awards/获奖情况：Prometheus Award winner Flynn (In the Lion’s Mouth) assembles six tales delving into deep melancholy and moral ambiguity. Each story builds from scientific what-ifs to a reality of human fragility and despair. In Melodies of the Heart, genetic conditions have a young girl aging too quickly and an old woman too slowly. In the title story, ideological differences hinder a young boy s ability to make sense of afterimages and echoes floating in his brain. Hopeful Monsters pulls back the curtain on the world of designing babies. In Places Where the Roads Don’t Go, a lifelong friendship is strained when a heated debate over the nature of mind becomes more than talk. Remember’d Kisses explores science that offers to absolve emotional pain. In Buried Hopes, buried objects keep hope alive. While great writing, vivid scenarios, and thoughtful commentary outshine the scientific concepts, the stories will linger after the last page is turned. --Publishers Weekly (Starrred Review)
(5 Star Review) Captive Dreams is not a short fiction collection or a fix-up in the usual sense. Some of the stories herein were previously published, others were written for this volume. The character set is the same for each story regardless of which characters appear in any given stories. What makes this volume unique is that one neighborhood is the setting, and all the characters in the stories live in that neighborhood. Flynn has also added afterwords for each story which describe how he came to write each piece, a great way of answering the standard question, Where do you get your ideas?
Flynn has created a fictional work from disparate parts that feels homogenous. Melodies of the Heart establishes the milieu and the tone of all the stories in its recounting of a part-time doctor at a retirement home who thinks he finds a key to unlock the chains of his daughter’s illness in an older resident s memories. The title story is a deeply affecting meditation on how parents of handicapped children can grow too attached to their child’s handicap instead of the child. Buried Hopes focuses on a foreign-born member of the shared neighborhood who finds himself in need of psychological counseling. It’s an intriguing tangent from the aliens live next door trope that shows how devastating homesickness can be if allowed to grow, and what the outsider might do to improve its mental state.
As Flynn notes in the Afterword to the Afterwords, the stories in Captive Dreams share a common ambience of deep melancholy and terrible ambiguity. Each story reflects the human element of scientific advancements, the good and bad of breakthrough treatments, programs to improve the human body and mind, the persistence of the mind after physical death, and other what-ifs often found in science fiction. Captive Dreams represents an alternative to fix-ups that works very well. --Janine Stinson, Foreword Reviews
About the Author/作者介绍： 迈克尔弗林是一位美国科幻小说作家，他于1947年出生于宾夕法尼亚州伊斯顿市。他于1984年开始创作短篇科幻小说，迅速成为美国著名科幻类杂志《类似》的主要作家之一。
Michael F. Flynn is an American science fiction writer born in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1947. He began selling short fiction in 1984, rapidly becoming one of the leading lights in the magazine Analog.Among his best-known novels are Firestar (1996) and its sequels, Rogue Star (1998), Lodestar (2000), and Falling Stars (2001), and the Spiral Arm series, which comprises The January Dancer (2008), Up Jim River (2010), and two more novels to come. His standalone novel Eifelheim, about a human-alien encounter in 14th-century Europe, was a Hugo Award finalist in 2007. Some of his short fiction has been collected in The Nanotech Chronicles (1991) and The Forest of Time and Other Stories (1997).
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