出版社: Tor Books
副标题: 垂幕之战
出版年: 2005-01-01
定价: USD 23.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780765309402
内容简介 · · · · · ·
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.
So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for o...
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.
So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.
Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve your time at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.
John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
约翰·斯卡尔齐,美国当代著名科幻作家和博客作家,1969年5月10日出生,毕业于芝加哥大学,现居俄亥俄州。
2005年,斯卡尔齐的处女作《垂暮之战》由美国著名科幻出版社Tor出版,随即获该年度雨果奖最佳长篇提名,斯卡尔齐本人也因此荣膺 2006年度约翰·W·坎贝尔奖最佳新人奖。
受到获奖的鼓励,斯卡尔齐又创作了《垂暮之战》的三部续作——《幽灵旅》《最后的殖民地》和《佐伊的故事》,且均受好评,其中,《最后的殖民地》获得2008年雨果奖最佳长篇提名。
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0 有用 dayday 2017-06-05 23:15:14
满篇dirty words,情节一般,不是我喜欢的类型
0 有用 诗琴弹奏者 2014-06-15 11:35:54
还不错,但没找到太多自己期望读到的东西
0 有用 tripcat 2008-08-23 15:05:14
不错的
0 有用 夏阳 2007-10-03 09:39:31
外国类似此类书好多
0 有用 A. 2007-12-12 23:20:33
cn version@sfw
0 有用 白鹿书生 2019-06-29 09:53:21
原文阅读No8,作者脑洞很大,可读性强,但是视角太窄了,没有展开所以深度不够。
0 有用 Joke 2019-02-13 23:34:12
地铁读物。
0 有用 奇迹的彬 2018-03-17 21:58:10
前半部脑洞+后半部水文,当初读《Redshirts》也隐隐有此感觉,但本书明显不如后者。
0 有用 ALEX 2017-07-04 00:18:52
后半段有一部分很精彩,但快到结尾了反而又弱下去了什么鬼…
0 有用 dayday 2017-06-05 23:15:14
满篇dirty words,情节一般,不是我喜欢的类型