英文版《三体3：死神永生》书评之二 [美国媒体]

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Sep 18, 2016 Alok Talekar rated it it was amazing 
Alok Talekar评为5星                   2016.09.18
an indirect homage to Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions with elements of hard scifi. The storyline divided in eras made the tale interesting, though the romantic turn at the end didn't seem consistent with the realistic narrative of the rest of the book. One of the best science fiction books I read. This book has my hugo vote for sure. 

向《平地：多维的浪漫》间接致敬之作，有着硬科幻的元素。故事线由各个纪元划分更添趣味，尽管末尾的情感转折似乎与全书的现实主义文风格格不入。是我读过最佳科幻之一，绝对是我雨果奖投票的选择。

Sep 20, 2016 Elaine Aldred rated it it was amazing 
Elaine Aldred 评为5星                   2016.09.20
Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early 21st century, and of the beginning of the Trisolar crisis, awakens to a very different world from the one she remembers. For half a century the Trisolarans have been kept at bay and the fragile peace would appear to be working. But its success exists on a knife-edge that the Trisolarans might, through Earth’s complacency, be in the process of upending. Will the knowledge Cheng Xin holds be the key to Earth overcoming its uncomfortable stand-off with the Trisolarans or will it die?

来自始于21世纪初的三体危机时期的航天工程师程Xin，被唤醒到一个与记忆里大不相同的世界。整整半个世纪，三体人无法越雷池一步，岌岌可危的和平似乎就这样保持下去，但其实是危如累卵，借着地球的志得意满，三体人或许悄然颠覆。程Xin的知识是否掌握着地球能打破尴尬僵局并最终制胜的关键，还是走向灭亡？

In Death’s End there is a sense of the human race striving for the feel-good factor from the excitement that comes from discovering the new and exciting. But they also feel a terrifying sense of their own insignificance in the greater scheme of things, and the constant pressure of the threat from superior life forms, as their probing further into space is likely to alert potential enemies to their existence.

在《死神永生》里，你能感受到人类勇于进取积极乐观，追求发现新生事物所带来的兴奋感。然而人类同样体会到自己在大千世界里的渺小和更高级生命形式的持续胁迫感，从而心生惧意，因为随着人类不断向宇宙深处的探索，很可能让潜在的有敌意的外星人惊悉人类的存在。

Cheng Xin is definitely the central character within this volume, because she is asked to make some monumental decisions which are too much for one person to shoulder on their own. She is also the driving force or catalyst of many of the events that take place in this epic story and her moral courage is astounding. Cheng Xin is also part of a remarkable love story that threads its way so delicately through the book that its lasting strength becomes a thing of marvel and poignancy.

程Xin绝对是这一部里的中心人物，因为由她肩负着个人难以承担的重责来作出千钧的决断。她又是这部史诗故事里发生的许多事件的推动力和催化剂，表现出非比寻常的道德勇气。程Xin也是纵贯全书的凄美爱情故事的主人公，怀着坚持到最后的力量终究是“千年生死两茫茫，酒入愁肠，一把辛酸泪”。{意译为主，因为原文太难准确表达}

The people of earth are seen as components of a whole, and the constant shift in politics and attitudes of the planet’s population resonate very strongly with anyone who has read and enjoyed Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy. 

地球人被视作整体，这个星球的住民的政治态度不断改弦更张，让喜爱阿西莫夫的基地三部曲的读者产生强烈的共鸣。

Like the Foundation Trilogy this is a series that I will always have on my book shelves because of the pleasure it gives to revisit it and wrestle all over again with the ideas and complex philosophical scenarios of the text.

如同基地三部曲一样，这套书我会一直摆在书架上，因为值得反复揣摩书里的新点子和哲学思辨的复杂情境，其乐无穷。

Death’s End is a novel that has to be absorbed slowly and with a means of internet access to constantly look up the many concepts of theoretical physics embedded within the narrative, but this is why The Three Body trilogy is so intriguing.

《死神永生》是一本需要花时间慢慢吸收的小说，得不断上网查询夹杂在字里行间的许多理论物理学的概念，但这恰恰是三体三部曲的迷人之处。

Credit is also due to the translator, the extraordinary Ken Liu, for creating a read which enables all the high level concepts to weld with the ongoing epic story.

同样向译者“非凡小刘”致意，感谢你呈献这本将所有高级概念合而为一的史诗巨作。

Sep 21, 2016 Alasdair Reads rated it really liked it 
Alasdair Reads  评为4星                   2016.09.21
Continues to fizz along with fascinating ideas and consequences, though as the scope of the story continues to expand out beyond earth and the solar system the ideas, perhaps necessarily are more new twists on familiar sfnal constructs and lack a bit of the originality of the second book. Most characters (with the exception of Wade) continue to be rather bland. The strongest aspect is that is a book with the courage to make decisions have irreversible consequences. 

继续涌出令人着迷的点子和推论，尽管故事的范围继续扩展到地球和太阳系之外，但新点子不如说是熟悉的科幻架构用新的剧情波折表现出来，略微缺少第二部的原创性。多数角色（除了维德）仍显寡淡。本作最强之处是敢于作出不可逆结局的决断。

Sep 21, 2016 Whitney rated it really liked it 
Whitney  评为4星                   2016.09.21
This book is amazing and I would just be repeating others if I offered praise. My main criticism is the way the author describes the vast majority of people and trends. Maybe it's one of those things that is more culturally bound because I can't imagine a Western writer leaning so heavily on simple tropes about mass psychology. 

这本书很赞，我会一直向别人夸赞它。我主要批评作者用来描述人类群体和未来趋势的手段方式。或许这种方式更多是源于文化上的局限，因为我很难想象西方作家会如此倚重单一的修辞手法来形容大众心理。

Sep 23, 2016 Dan Allosso rated it really liked it 
Dan Allosso   评为4星                   2016.09.23
Full of ideas and sweeping in its 10 billion-year scope, but even so, less satisfying than the previous two installments. Liu never really describes the Trisolarans physically, and aside from one person who interacts with them "off-camera," no humans ever meet them face to face. There's a general feeling of payoffs that didn't get paid off. For example [SPOILER], a character from the beginning of the story seems lost, but then against all odds reappears alive, and THEN against even more odds, arrives at the same place and time as the protagonist. In spite of all these hardly-believable developments, they don't meet. 

充满创意点子，横跨百亿年的距离，即便如此，却不如前两部让人满足。刘从未真正描述三体人的具体形态，除了一个“镜头之外”能与三体人互动的人类，没有人曾面对面见过三体人。全书有种“结果没有结果【最后没成正果】”的整体感觉。举个例子（有剧透）：故事开始有个家伙似乎失踪了，但之后历经九九八十一难活着重现，之后又历经三九七二九难与主人公同时赶到同一地，尽管经历了如此难以相信的故事发展，他们却没碰到头。

This could be viewed as the author's deliberate commentary on the conventions of fiction. However, throughout the story,the reader has been going along with a series of increasingly improbable events. So it's a bit problematic that the author chooses not to close loops that seem to have been drawn only for that purpose. I had a similar reaction to the story's end. If a small concession was made to allow the characters to do what they did at the end, then would leaving just a little more have been so bad? Like, a small spaceship in which they could have hibernated and waited for the big renewal?

你可以把它当作该作者在科幻大会上的慎重解说。然而，纵贯全文，读者会经历一连串越来越不可能发生的事件。似乎仅为这个目的所引出的结局而作者选择不去写死 ，那就值得存疑了。我对故事结尾有个类似的感想，既然允许他们在结局处作小小的让步【五公斤的重量】，那么再多留一点会很糟吗？那再多留一艘能让他们冬眠到大重启的小型飞船呢？

My biggest reaction, though, was that presumably, this has all happened before. If messages had been left in bottles, then the dark forest simply propagated from one universe to the next. So aside from the selfish conceit of "preserving the memory," the messages in the bottles would be the worst thing that could possibly happen. The fall pre-programmed into the new Eden. In this sense, the story is profoundly pessimistic. (less) 

我最大的感想是，尽管是臆测的，这事早就是发生过的。假设漂流瓶中的信流传了下来，那黑暗森林自然从一个宇宙传播到下一宇宙。所以暂且不论“保存记忆”行为彰显的自私自大，漂流瓶可能会是最糟糕的东西，说明降维已被预先设定进新的田园时代。以此看来，这本书真是极其悲观啊。

Sep 23, 2016 Ivo Toman rated it it was amazing
Ivo Toman   评为5星                   2016.09.23
The top position among all the sci-fi books had been shifted. Forget Dune, Foundation, Starship Troopers, Ender's game or Rendezvous with Rama. The three body is the new king of multilayered realistic and dramatic storytelling. The whole series brings a sound coherent logic and explanations of big bang, expanding universe, multidimensional universe, Fermi's paradox, dark matter and the ultimate sociology and destiny of the universe. The greatest of the sci-fi series. Thank you Mr Liu 

科幻书籍头名的位置换人啦。忘掉《沙丘》《基地》《星船伞兵》《安德的游戏》《与拉玛相会》吧，《三体》才是多层次现实性戏剧性小说故事的新王。整个系列对宇宙大爆炸、宇宙膨胀、多维宇宙、费米佯谬、暗物质以及宇宙的终极社会和终极命运等概念给出合理且一致的逻辑解释。最好的科幻系列，感谢刘老师。