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讀NK Jemisin的The City We Became
看推薦文說這是本Speculative fiction,所以就去查Speculative fiction是甚麼
進度又開始拖延了,心得下收
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Speculative Fiction中譯為推想小說,雖然以奇幻、科幻或恐怖的元素在,但故事中有一大部分和現實重疊,和奇幻小說最大的差別是,奇幻小說認為魔法等超自然元素是合情合理的事情,而推想小說中的角色則無法接受超現實。
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BTW之前Lee Pace在訪談中說他很喜歡Speculative Fiction(離題的情報)
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讀到大概p211左右(突然冒出來),目前的理解是故事設定紐約市的街區回轉化爲人,而這些人有的可能是出生以來就已經知道自己是街區的化身,有的則是突然之間被附身(?例如曼哈頓的Manny。這些人必需抵擋來自Enemy 的攻擊,這些敵人有捲鬚(tendril)、羽毛、觸手(tentacle)。
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裡面有提到多元宇宙的概念,所以算是有融合科幻元素,但整體還是偏奇幻加克蘇魯
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讀完發現心得又沒有打完QQ
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P119 " 'And everywhere / The cremony of innocence is drowned...' Ah, that's my favorite line. don't you think? Innocence is nothing but a ceremony, after all. So strange you people venerate it the way you do. What other world celebrates not knowing anything about how life really works?"
之前學過葉慈的The Second Coming,現在看特別有感
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Bronca 轉變成Bronx這段還算蠻戲劇性的,一個有色人種的女人勇敢站出來對抗武裝警察。
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P302 All that stuff is true. All the other worlds that human beings believe in, via group myths or spiritual visitation of even imaginations if they're vivid enough, they exist. Imagining a world creates it, if it isn't already there. That's the great secret of existence: it's superensitive to thought.
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Decisions, wishes, lies-- that's all you need to create a new universe. Every human being on this planet spins off thousands between birth and death, although there's something about the way our minds work that keep us from noticing.In every moment, we're constantly moving in multiple dimensions
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--We think we're sitting still, but we actually falling from one universe to the next to the next, so fast that it all blends together, like animation. Except there's a lot more that just images flipping past.
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打這麼多字好辛苦 ,之後用拍的好了
我喜歡這本書的背景設定,所有城市擬人化然後各有各的個性。而對於多元宇宙的闡述就是:每做一個決定、一次奇想、許一個願望都會產生新的世界,這世界就像動畫一樣快速翻動著,人們以為在原地打轉,其實正朝著一個個宇宙墜落。
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而當每個城市的虛擬化身誕生,就會打擊另一個宇宙,數百億的生命因而死去。其實也對應了現代城市是吸取周遭資源而崛起。
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後面揭露反派的名字是R'lyeh(拉萊耶),也是HP Lovecraft所創作克蘇魯宇宙中沉沒的城市,大約位於南太平洋,由巨大的石塊建成,和未來藝術有相似風格。
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不喜歡這本書的部分是我覺得Jemisin不太適合寫現代,有點過於爆走,塞了好多政治正確的元素,尤其每個虛擬化身都是有色人種,而反派叫Woman in White,實在太明顯了吧這個明喻。還有其中一段居然是配角問腳之一是不是黑人,而他說我雖然有混血但還是黑人,好出戲。
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並不是說政確不好,而是過度強調反而模糊了故事主軸,導致整本書看起來像是在說教,Aislyn被騷擾的事件也很老套。導致整本書變得像是樣板文化下的產物。
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