读过《Assignment in Eternity》 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
包含了海因莱因早期四部小说,时间跨度是1941~1949,这一点非常重要,第二篇读起来有些乏味,但是这部穿越多个异世界的小说比量子理论提出多重宇宙的概念早了30年。第三篇和第四篇很精彩,特别有海因莱因的风格,并不是单纯写花哨的发达技术,他着眼的还是人性的种种和社会模式的可能,这也是他的作品经常能超越时代的关键点。这本书的序和跋都特别有意思也非常有用,只可惜都太短。
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Assignment in Eternity
DoubanCompelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas, Gulf and Lost Legacy, and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human.
Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human.
Gulf: in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't decide on quite what to do with the rest of us. The prequel to Heinlein's later New York Times best seller, Friday.
Lost Legacy: in which it is proved that we are all members of that league of the superhuman–or would be, if we but had eyes to see.
Plus a double dose of great short stories, with two of the master's finest: one on the nature of being, the other on what it means to be a man. The second story, "Jerry Was a Man," was adapted for the TV series Masters of Science Fiction, and is now available on DVD.