刘慈欣评三体：“人们希望我的书可以成为中国的星球大战” [英国媒体]

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When he was a schoolboy Liu Cixin’s favourite book was Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne. This might seem like a fairly standard introduction to science fiction but Liu read it under exceptional circumstances; this was at the height of the Cultural Revolution in his native China and all western literature was strictly forbidden.

刘慈欣还在上学的时候，他最喜欢的书是儒勒.凡尔纳的地心游记。这看起来像是标准的科幻小说启蒙教育，但是刘先生当时在读这本书的时候却是非常时期。当时的中国，文化大革命运动正如火如荼。所有的西方文学读物都是禁物。

Now 53 Liu (western publishers present him as Cixin Liu to make it easier for readers to find his family name on the shelves) is a science-fiction writer of some renown both in China and in the English-speaking world. His novel The Three-Body Problem won a Hugo award in 2015 and is currently being adapted into a movie due in 2017. His sequel The Dark Forest was published in English in 2015 and the third book Death’s End has just been translated and released in the UK.

如今，53的刘先生（西方出版商喜欢把他的名字写成慈欣.刘以方便读者在书架上以他的姓氏找到他（的作品））已经是一个蜚声海内外的科幻小说作家，他的小说三体赢得了2015年的雨果奖，并将在2017年被翻拍成电影。续集：三体2.黑暗森林英文版在2015年出版，续集：三体3.死神永生已经翻译成英文并在英国发售。

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His first novel The Devil’s Bricks came out in 2002 but it wasn’t until 2006 that he had his breakthrough The Three-Body Problem.
Initially serialised in the Chinese magazine Science Fiction World the novel takes its title from a physics question in orbital mechanics and contains three intertwining plots set respectively during 1971 in the Cultural Revolution in the mid-2000s and on a distant world in a three-sun system.

他的第一部小说写于2002年《魔鬼积木》。直到2006年完成《三体》后才是他的突破。这部小说最初是在中国科幻世界杂志上连载，小说的命名灵感是来源于一个轨道物理学问题，小说里有3个交织在一起的情节设置，分别从1971年文化大革命开始到2000年中叶，以及在遥远世界的三太阳体系。

The success of Liu’s novel is credited with inspiring a new surge in sci-fi writing; in 2012 alone nearly 200 new titles were published in China.

刘的成功被认为激起了一股科幻小说创作热潮，仅仅2012年就有将近200部科幻小说在中国出版。




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shima 11h ago
I loved this trilogy. While reading it I was profoundly aware I was reading a novel by an author whose background and cultural references were utterly different from mine and I loved that too. There is a constant bait-and-switch going through these books - especially the second - which meant I kept flipping from cosmic scale and back again.
It's made me go looking for more Chinese SF too.

我非常喜欢这个三部曲。通过阅读，我更加深入地了解了一个和我完全不同生活和文化背景下的作者写的小说，我很喜欢。这几本书都很诱惑人们去购买，尤其是第二部，我不停地随着书中缩写的情节在宇宙范围内飞走又回来。
这套书也让我开始寻找更多的中国科幻小说。

SamuelWeller 23h ago
'...in 2012 alone nearly 200 new titles were published in China...'
I hope many of them were adult and mature SCI FI literature not as in the Western world full of nonsense and outdated fantasies...
I dont know where lies the dystopia here or there...

单单2012年，中国有接近200个新书出版。
我希望大多数书是成熟的科幻文学，而不要像西方世界的科幻那样都是废话和过时的科幻噱头
我不知道反乌托邦是在这里还是那里......

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Kungfulil 2d ago
I'm especially interested in "Frankenstien" theories. Thanks again.

我对“黑暗森林”法则特别感兴趣。再次致谢。

Kungfulil 2d ago
Interesting article. Could someone point me in the right direction towards a science fiction writer that isn't too overboard super scientific or too unbelievable? Someone who writes good SF lite if you will. I'm new here. Thanks.

有趣的文章。有没有大神给我指个道，说说哪个科幻作家的小说既不是太过硬科幻，也不至于太扯淡？应该是有意愿创作出优秀科幻作品的作家。我是新来的。谢谢。

Alex42  Kungfulil 2d ago
Give Chris Beckett a try. His short story collection The Turing Test is very accessible and contains the story that is a prequel to his novel Dark Eden although the novel stands on its own if you'd rather start with that. His writing style is clear unpretentious and delivers a new spin on familiar SF ideas.
As a general rule anyone who's won the Arthur C Clarke award is worth a read as that tends to go to readable SF (based on the ones that I've read at least).

那你去看下克里斯·贝克特的吧。他的短篇小说集《图灵测试》阅读体验很好，如果你更想从他的小说《黑暗伊甸园》开始看的话，里面的故事差不多是《黑暗伊甸园》的前传，但是又独立成篇。他的写作风格朴实无华，为广为人知的科幻小说概念提供了一个新的视角。
作为一条通用经验的话，获得过阿瑟.克拉克奖的作品都值得一读，因为（至少就我已经看过的获奖科幻小说而言）都是能看得下去的科幻小说。

Kungfulil  Alex42 2d ago
Thanks so much for that.

太感谢了

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NyuszNo1  Kungfulil 15h ago
SF lite - the red rising series by pierce brown. Hugely enjoyable romp. Fans of hard sci fi will scoff but ignore them. Second and third books much much better than the first.

科幻作品中精英之作就是皮尔斯布朗的《火星崛起》系列，大量有趣的故事情节，硬科幻迷们对此很嘲讽，并且不会在意它们。第二和第三步比第一部要好。

ChinaBounder 2d ago
The Three Body Problem is really first-rate SF. Some of the most imaginative and memorable writing I've read in many years. Looking forward to reading the third volume.

《三体》真的是一流的科幻作品。《三体》是我这么多年读过的最有想象力和印象最深的作品之一。期待看到第三部。

IanCann 2d ago
Love the trilogy felt the most different fresh body of work I'd read in some time - the sharp prose the difference in setting/focus and suchlike. I preferred TBP and Death's End to Dark Forest not by much mind you - I think that's in good part due to Ken Liu's excellent translations.
Hopefully this will mean SFF in translation will become much easier to find.

非常喜欢《三体》，感觉和我最近看过的作品有很大不同，这是一部在情节设置、中心焦点和类似协作手法上都表现很犀利的作品。这三部我都喜欢，但比较喜欢《三体》、《三体Ⅲ·死神永生》，可能也是因为这两部是刘宇昆翻译的，翻译的很出色。
很希望类似的科幻翻译作品更加容易买到。

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GabrielYing 2d ago
So I think Chinese SF right now is in such an interesting and unique place. Ken Liu has also edited a collection called "Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation" which is absolutely well worth a read to get a broad grasp of the scene. It's a fantastic collection of a range of SF pieces. Hao Jingfang's "Folding Beijing" is a stand-out.

我认为现在的中国科幻小说是一个很有趣和特别的领域。Ken Liu也编辑了一套丛书叫做《隐藏星球：当代中国科幻小说译本》，如果你想拓展你对中国科幻小说的理解视角，这是一本值得一读的小说集。这是一本相当出色的中国科幻小说收藏本。郝景芳的《北京折叠》相当出色。

RainyDayCarts 2d ago
Isn't China already in dystopian sci-fi reality?

难道中国不是已经在反乌托邦科幻现实了吗？

shanshuitianqi  RainyDayCarts 2d ago
You didn't read the article did you. The featured author mentions foreigners like you who mistake China for dystopia already.

你肯定没看文章对吧，这位有名的作家提到过像你一样的外国人把中国误认为反乌托邦。

RainyDayCarts  shanshuitianqi 2d ago
I am Chinese

我是中国人啊

shanshuitianqi  RainyDayCarts 2d ago
Fascinating. Could you elaborate your perception especially the sci fi part?

真有趣，你能不能详细的描述一下你的看法，特别是对科幻领域的看法？

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filijug 2d ago
The Dark Forest trilogy is superb hard SF and is a reminder why the genre can be so much fun at its best. The density and range of ideas and tropes generally well handled in these books is very impressive and spans politics social psychology game theory catastrophe astrophysics time travel the end of the world the end of the universe amongst others. The characters are put in a succession of seemingly impossible situations of escalating difficulty and the way that these are managed on individual and procedural levels is often unexpected.

《黑暗森林》三部曲是一部极好的硬科幻小说，提醒人们为什么这种体裁的上乘之作会如此有趣。这几本书创意和想象力的深度和广度基本上都把握得很好，给读者留下极为深刻的印象，涉猎了政治、社会学、心理学、博弈论、大灾难、天体物理、时间旅行、世界末日、宇宙终结和其它话题。这些人物被设定成处于困境层层加深的一系列看似不可能的场景下，这些困境在个人层面和程序层面的处理都出人意料。

Gordomania 2d ago
If these works fail to provide a vision of a Chinese future overseen by a benevolent CCP they'll be banned. How burgeoning can that scene be?

如果这些作品不能提供一个中国未来由仁慈的土鳖来掌控的前景就会被禁。怎么可能出现蓬勃发展的情况呢？

Alex42  Gordomania 2d ago
"Burgeoning" does seem a bit strong when the only Chinese SF works mentioned in the article are three books by one author.4

如果文章中提到的中国科幻小说仅仅是同一位作者的三本不同的书，”兴起“一说确实有点牵强。

Pode  Gordomania 2d ago
You might be surprised - there's quite a bit of it about in China now. Not a lot of it gets translated into English though.

你也许会惊讶----现在中国确实有很多科幻小说。只不过翻译成英语的不太多。

Gordomania  Pode 2d ago
I have lived in either Taiwan or China for nearly five years. I can read Chinese. I won't be surprised.

我在台湾或者中国住了将近5年。我能阅读中文。我不会感到惊讶。

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Alex42  Jayarava Attwood 2d ago
What's it most similar to would you say? I'm a fan of hard SF but I'm always wary of starting trilogies if I'm not pretty sure I'm going to enjoy them!

说说看《三体》的风格和什么最接近？我是硬科幻迷，但是如果没有把握是不是会喜欢的时候，对开看三部曲总是很谨慎。

Arthur Sternom  Alex42 2d ago
I would say it is similarish to a Peter F Hamilton trilogy but a bit harsher and with less of the outre psychedelia. Imagine a bit of William Gibson mixed in.

我觉得《三体》跟皮特.汉密尔顿的三部曲类似，但是风格更凌厉，少一点奇异迷幻的色彩。可以想象一下混搭了一点点威廉·吉布森。

Arthur Sternom  Jayarava Attwood 2d ago
Keep going. I agree about the third installment but it ends up in about the only way something so grand can do.

继续。我认同第三部，但是结尾落入了俗套。

I loved the first two and bashed through the third.

我非常喜欢第一部和第二部，第三部就草草阅读了。