软件体的生命周期：特德·姜科幻小说集

by Ted Chiang, 特德·姜, 张博然 (Translator)

《软件体的生命周期》结集特德·姜最新的六篇作品：《软件体的生命周期》、《赏心悦目》、《商人和炼金术士之门》、《呼吸——宇宙的毁灭》、《前路迢迢》及《达西的新型自动机器保姆》——

安娜在蓝色伽马培育数码体，供喜爱之人购买当宠物。随着数码体市场的发展、壮大、冷淡和萧条，数码体们的命运也随之发生变迁。

戴上“审美干扰镜”，人们就无法分辨一个人相貌的美丑。这一新技术的诞生是否可以彻底根除相貌歧视，让我们听听那些当事人是怎么说的。

穿越时空之门回到过去，能够对既定的事实带来改变吗？

每天早上醒来之后，先把用完的肺换掉。来自地下的空气流源源不断，只可惜，我们耐以生存的似乎并不是空气。

当你的每一个决定都被他人精确预料，你是欣然接受，还是无助挣扎？

把孩子给保姆照料让人不放心，可如果这个保姆是个严格执行命令、百分百听指挥的机器人呢？

242 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 2015

About the author

Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan. He graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of the noted Clarion Writers Workshop (1989) and has been an instructor for it (2012, 2016). Chiang is also a frequent non-fiction contributor to the New Yorker, where he writes on topics related to computing such as artificial intelligence.

Chiang has published 18 short stories, to date, and most of them have won prestigious speculative fiction awards - including multiple Nebula Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, and British Science Fiction Association Awards, among others. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). He has never written a novel but is one of the most decorated science fiction writers currently working.

Chiang's first eight stories are collected in "Stories of Your Life, and Others" and the next nine, in "Exhalation: Stories".

Reviews

[聽聽屍體怎麼說 · Rating 4 out of 5]

命運既定/命運已知是特德·姜作品的主要基調和構成，所以他會探討自由意志，探討時空門，還探討在一種能夠看到起點與終點的思維下過程是否還有意義。