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رمانهای چهارگانه جان کریستوفر، مجموعه دوم
سایمون و پسرخالهاش، براد، با جسمی نورانی روبهرو میشوند که آنها را از زندگی قرن بیستمی راحتشان به دوران روم باستان میبرد. سایمون به مدرسه گلادیاتوری راه مییابد و براد تا یک قدمی بردگی پیش میرود. پسرها در پی راهی برای بازگشت به دنیای خود هستند.
آنها با سرخپوستها، وایکینگها، آزتکها و چینیهای اسرارآمیزی روبهرو میشوند، و در نهایت در مییابند که چگونه مرزهای زمان را پشت سرگذاشته و به عقب بازگشتهاند.
اما آیا راهی به آینده وجود دارد؟
آنها با سرخپوستها، وایکینگها، آزتکها و چینیهای اسرارآمیزی روبهرو میشوند، و در نهایت در مییابند که چگونه مرزهای زمان را پشت سرگذاشته و به عقب بازگشتهاند.
اما آیا راهی به آینده وجود دارد؟
- GenresScience Fiction
488 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1389
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About the author
John Christopher
194 books541 followersSamuel Youd was born in Huyton, Lancashire in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm.
As a boy, he was devoted to the newly emergent genre of science-fiction: ‘In the early thirties,’ he later wrote, ‘we knew just enough about the solar system for its possibilities to be a magnet to the imagination.’
Over the following decades, his imagination flowed from science-fiction into general novels, cricket novels, medical novels, gothic romances, detective thrillers, light comedies … In all he published fifty-six novels and a myriad of short stories, under his own name as well as eight different pen-names.
He is perhaps best known as John Christopher, author of the seminal work of speculative fiction, The Death of Grass (today available as a Penguin Classic), and a stream of novels in the genre he pioneered, young adult dystopian fiction, beginning with The Tripods Trilogy.
‘I read somewhere,’ Sam once said, ‘that I have been cited as the greatest serial killer in fictional history, having destroyed civilisation in so many different ways – through famine, freezing, earthquakes, feral youth combined with religious fanaticism, and progeria.’
In an interview towards the end of his life, conversation turned to a recent spate of novels set on Mars and a possible setting for a John Christopher story: strand a group of people in a remote Martian enclave and see what happens.
The Mars aspect, he felt, was irrelevant. ‘What happens between the people,’ he said, ‘that’s the thing I’m interested in.’
As a boy, he was devoted to the newly emergent genre of science-fiction: ‘In the early thirties,’ he later wrote, ‘we knew just enough about the solar system for its possibilities to be a magnet to the imagination.’
Over the following decades, his imagination flowed from science-fiction into general novels, cricket novels, medical novels, gothic romances, detective thrillers, light comedies … In all he published fifty-six novels and a myriad of short stories, under his own name as well as eight different pen-names.
He is perhaps best known as John Christopher, author of the seminal work of speculative fiction, The Death of Grass (today available as a Penguin Classic), and a stream of novels in the genre he pioneered, young adult dystopian fiction, beginning with The Tripods Trilogy.
‘I read somewhere,’ Sam once said, ‘that I have been cited as the greatest serial killer in fictional history, having destroyed civilisation in so many different ways – through famine, freezing, earthquakes, feral youth combined with religious fanaticism, and progeria.’
In an interview towards the end of his life, conversation turned to a recent spate of novels set on Mars and a possible setting for a John Christopher story: strand a group of people in a remote Martian enclave and see what happens.
The Mars aspect, he felt, was irrelevant. ‘What happens between the people,’ he said, ‘that’s the thing I’m interested in.’
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January 1, 2024
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