1956: A Year of Wonder in Science Fiction and Beyond
暫譯: 1956：科幻與超越的奇妙一年
Webb, Stephen
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2026-04-24
- 售價: $1,560
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,482
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 393
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3032165733
- ISBN-13: 9783032165732
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商品描述
1956 was a momentous year for science fiction, with the release of timeless films and the publication of classic novels and stories. It was also a pivotal year for the world at large, with events producing ripples we still feel seven decades later.
This book explores how the year's landmark works - films such as Forbidden Planet and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and stories such as Asimov's The Last Question and Clarke's The City and the Stars - emerged from their cultural context. Writers, artists, and film directors reflected the era's tension between optimism and anxiety, between the promise and peril of progress.
The book traces, month-by-month, events in five themes: science and technology; politics and the economy; entertainment and arts; celebrity culture; and competitive sport. This was a climate defined by rapid change - from the Suez Crisis to Elvis Presley's meteoric rise; from early computers to space race dreams. The science fiction emerging from this turbulent year helped form our collective imagination of tomorrow.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
1956年對科幻小說來說是一個重要的年份，這一年推出了許多經典電影和小說故事。這也是對整個世界來說一個關鍵的年份，當時發生的事件至今仍在影響著我們，七十年後的今天依然感受到其餘波蕩漾。
本書探討了這一年具有里程碑意義的作品——如電影《禁忌星球》（Forbidden Planet）和《人體奪取者》（Invasion of the Body Snatchers），以及故事如阿西莫夫的《最後的問題》（The Last Question）和克拉克的《城市與星星》（The City and the Stars）——是如何從其文化背景中產生的。作家、藝術家和電影導演反映了那個時代在樂觀與焦慮之間、進步的承諾與危險之間的緊張關係。
本書按月份追溯了五個主題中的事件：科學與技術；政治與經濟；娛樂與藝術；名人文化；以及競技運動。這是一個由快速變化所定義的氣候——從蘇伊士運河危機到艾維斯·普雷斯利的迅速崛起；從早期的電腦到太空競賽的夢想。這一年湧現的科幻作品幫助塑造了我們對未來的集體想像。
作者簡介
Following a first-class honours degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester Stephen Webb has worked at a number of UK universities. In addition to shorter works, he has published twelve books - one of which won the SETI League award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize (now Royal Society Winton Prize) for best science book. He is active in outreach activities, having spoken at numerous international conferences, podcasts and radio shows, and his 2018 TED Talk has been viewed over 6 million times. He has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe (Springer, 1999) as well as several popular science books, among them New Eyes on the Universe (Springer, 2012) and the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? (Springer, 2015).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
在布里斯托大學獲得一級榮譽物理學學位後，並在曼徹斯特大學獲得理論物理學博士學位的史蒂芬·韋布曾在多所英國大學工作。除了短篇作品外，他已出版十二本書籍，其中一本獲得SETI聯盟獎，並入圍了阿凡提斯獎（現為皇家學會溫頓獎）最佳科學書籍獎。他積極參與外展活動，曾在多個國際會議、播客和廣播節目上發言，並且他的2018年TED演講已被觀看超過600萬次。他出版了一本本科教科書測量宇宙（Springer, 1999），以及幾本科普書籍，其中包括宇宙的新視野（Springer, 2012）和如果宇宙充滿外星人... 那麼大家在哪裡？的第二版（Springer, 2015）。
