The Hampdenshire Wonder
暫譯: 漢普登郡的奇蹟

Beresford, J. D., Chiang, Ted

The Hampdenshire Wonder
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2025-03-04
  • 售價: $880
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $836
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 282
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262551411
  • ISBN-13: 9780262551410

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商品描述

In this pioneering science-fictional treatment of superhuman intelligence, a mutant wonder child's insights prove devastating.

Science fiction luminary Ted Chiang introduces The Hampdenshire Wonder, one of the genre's first treatments of superhuman intelligence. Victor Stott is a large-headed "supernormal" mutated in the womb by his parents' desire to have a child born without habits. Known as "the Wonder," Victor surveys humankind's science, philosophy, history, literature, religion--the best that has been thought and said--and dismisses it brutally: "So elementary . . . inchoate . . . a disjunctive patchwork." Rejecting "the interposing and utterly false concepts of space and time," the Wonder claims that life itself is merely "a disease of the ether." Unable to deal with the child's disenchanting insights, his adult interlocutors seek to silence him . . . perhaps permanently.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在這部開創性的科幻作品中，超人類智慧的處理方式中，一位變異的神童所帶來的見解證明是毀滅性的。

科幻界的傑出人物泰德·姜（Ted Chiang）介紹了《漢普登郡的奇蹟》（The Hampdenshire Wonder），這是該類型中對超人類智慧的首次探討之一。維克多·斯托特（Victor Stott）是一位頭部較大的「超常人」，因父母希望生下沒有習慣的孩子而在子宮中變異。維克多被稱為「奇蹟」，他審視人類的科學、哲學、歷史、文學和宗教——所有最偉大的思想和言論——並殘酷地駁斥它們：「如此基本……未成熟……一種不連貫的拼湊。」他拒絕「介入的、完全虛假的空間和時間概念」，聲稱生命本身僅僅是「以太的疾病。」無法應對這位孩子令人失望的見解，他的成年對話者們試圖讓他沉默……也許是永久的。

作者簡介

J.D. Beresford (1873-1947) was an English dramatist, journalist, and author. His proto-science fiction novels include The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911), A World of Women (1913), and The Riddle of the Tower (1944, with Esme Wynne-Tyson); he also wrote in the horror and ghost story genres. A great admirer of H.G. Wells, he wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915. His daughter, Elisabeth Beresford (1926-2010), was creator of the literary and TV franchise The Wombles.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

J.D. Beresford（1873-1947）是一位英國劇作家、記者和作家。他的原型科幻小說包括《漢普登郡的奇蹟》（The Hampdenshire Wonder，1911年）、《女性的世界》（A World of Women，1913年）和《塔樓之謎》（The Riddle of the Tower，1944年，與Esme Wynne-Tyson合著）；他也在恐怖和鬼故事類別中創作。作為H.G. 威爾斯的崇拜者，他於1915年撰寫了威爾斯的第一部批評研究。他的女兒伊莉莎白·貝雷斯福德（Elisabeth Beresford，1926-2010）是文學和電視系列《懷姆布爾斯》（The Wombles）的創作者。

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