那些不容錯過的華人科幻小說

袁瑞

About the author： Ken Liu was born in Lanzhou， China but immigrated with his family to the United States at age 11. He is an author of speculative fiction. Ken&apos；s debut novel， The Grace of Kings， is the first volume in the fantasy series， The Dandelion Dynasty： a saga1） of tyranny2）， rebellion and rivalry set in a beautifully imagined world of airships and adventurers. In addition to his original fiction， Ken is also the translator of numerous literary and genre works from Chinese to English. His translation of The Three-Body Problem， by Liu Cixin， won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015， the first translated novel ever to receive that honor.

Plot： Wily3）， charming Kuni Garu， a bandit4）， and stern， fearless Mata Zyndu， the son of a deposed5） duke， seem like polar opposites. Yet， in the uprising against the emperor， the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast armies， airships and shape-shifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown， however， they each find themselves the leader of separate sides， each with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice.

The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

作者簡介

劉宇昆出生在中國的蘭州，但在11歲時和家人移居了美國。他是一位推理科幻作家，其長篇小說處女作《國王的恩典》是奇幻系列小說“蒲公英王朝”的第一部。這是一部關于暴政、叛亂和斗爭的傳奇故事，故事發生在一個想象中的美麗國度，那里有飛艇，也有探險家。除了原創小說，劉宇昆還是位譯者，將許多文學作品和通俗小說從中文譯成了英文。他的譯作《三體》（作者劉慈欣）獲得了2015年度雨果獎最佳長篇小說獎——這可是首部獲此殊榮的譯作。

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庫尼·加魯是一個詭計多端而又魅力十足的強盜，而馬塔·贊杜則是一個被廢黜的公爵的兒子，作風強硬而又無所畏懼。他們兩個看起來就像是對立的兩極。然而，在一場反對君王的起義中，兩人經過一系列的冒險，與千軍萬馬、各式飛艇以及會變形的諸神作戰后，很快成了摯友。可是，君王一被推翻，他們彼此就發現自己各領一派，對該如何管理這個世界以及對正義的理解也都秉持截然不同的觀點。

About the author： Chinese author， engineer and multiple Yinhe Award winner Wang Jinkang， who spent over 20 years writing science fiction， is another heavyweight in Chinese SF. His stories are deeply rooted in the tradition of realism and usually with a focus on biology.

Plot： On the surface， the life of young scientist Mei Yin seems perfect. She runs her own research institute in China， she&apos；s getting married， and she founded an orphanage that helps hundreds of girls. But Mei Yin has a dark secret—three small bottles of "Satan&apos；s gift"， a deadly smallpox6） virus left over from Russian scientific research conducted during the Cold War. She&apos；s determined to find a vaccine7）， even if that means endangering those she holds dear. Zia Baj， a terrorist educated in the West， has also obtained Satan&apos；s gift. But he&apos；s not looking for a cure—instead， he plans to take revenge and start a war. So he releases the virus in an American classroom. At the same time， thousands of miles away， the children of Mei Yin&apos；s orphanage fall ill. Soon authorities realize that this is no ordinary outbreak： It&apos；s the start of an epidemic.endprint

About the author： Lao She was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature， and best known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse. Cat Country， Lao She&apos；s only work of science fiction， is a dark， dystopian tale of one man&apos；s close encounter with the feline8） kind.

Plot： When a traveler from China lands on Mars， he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man， he comes to know all aspects of cat-life. He learns to speak Felinese， masters cat-poetry， and so on. But curiosity turns to despair when he ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture， and realizes that he is witnessing the decline of a civilization.

Pathological by Wang Jinkang 王晉康的《四級恐慌》

Cat Country by Lao She 老舍的《貓城記》

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王晉康，中國作家、工程師，多次榮獲銀河獎。20多年來，他一直致力于科幻小說的創作，是中國科幻小說界又一重量級人物。他寫的故事深植于現實傳統之中，并常聚焦于生物學領域。

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從表面上來看，年輕科學家梅茵的生活似乎非常完美，她在中國開了自己的研究所，結了婚，還建了一所孤兒院，幫助了上百名女童。但梅茵有個不為人知的秘密——她有三小瓶“撒旦的禮物”，這是冷戰期間俄羅斯人進行科學研究后遺留下的一種致命天花病毒。她執意要找到疫苗，哪怕這意味著會危及那些她最親的人。齊亞·巴伊是一個在西方受過教育的恐怖分子，也擁有“撒旦的禮物”。然而，他沒有去尋找對抗病毒的方法，反而計劃著復仇和發動一場戰爭。于是，他在美國的一間教室里釋放了病毒。與此同時，遠在千里之外的那些被梅茵收養的孤兒們都生了病。很快，當局就意識到這不是普通的疾病暴發，而是一場瘟疫的開端。

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老舍是20世紀中國文壇上最重要的人物之一，其最為人稱道的要數他的小說《駱駝祥子》和戲劇《茶館》。《貓城記》是老舍唯一的科幻類小說，講述了一個關于人類與貓人相處的反烏托邦題材的黑暗故事。

故事梗概

一個中國旅行者降落到了火星，發現自己身處在一個全都是貓人的國家。當地的一個貓人和他交了朋友，于是，他逐漸了解到了貓人生活的方方面面。他學著說貓人的語言，掌握了貓人的詩歌，這樣的經歷不一而足。但當他冒險進一步深入貓人國腹地，深入了解其文化內核，并意識到自己正見證一場文明的衰敗時，他的好奇逐漸變成了一種絕望。endprint