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标题: 《三体》Three-Body Problem获雨果奖,是由宇航员在太空宣布的 [打印本页]

作者: tea    时间: 2015-8-24 20:21
标题: 《三体》Three-Body Problem获雨果奖,是由宇航员在太空宣布的
Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China’s most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.
Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

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《三体》获雨果奖,是由宇航员在太空宣布的

北京时间23日下午1时许,第73届雨果奖正式揭晓,中国作家刘慈欣凭借科幻小说《三体》获最佳长篇故事奖。本届雨果奖的长篇小说单元,刘慈欣的《三体》受小狗门事件影响,历经两进两出终获提名。

刘慈欣并未亲自前往美国参加本届世界科幻大会,作为译者的刘宇昆代表刘慈欣上台领奖。另据澎湃新闻报道,颇震撼人心的细节是,《三体》获奖的结果是由宇航员兼科幻作家Kjill在太空站宣布的。

雨果奖是什么?

雨果奖由世界科幻协会颁发,为纪念“科幻之父”雨果•根斯巴克 (Hugo Gernsback),命名为雨果奖。在世界科幻界,雨果奖和星云奖被公认为最具权威与影响的两项世界性科幻大奖。开放性是雨果奖与星云奖最大的区别之一,它的设计机构是世界科幻协会,并没有任何常设机构,而只是给出大会和奖项的框架,供每年的主办方操作。

雨果奖采用两轮投票制,所有世界科幻协会的会员都可以投票。第一轮是提名轮,每位会员可以为每个单项选择五个提名作品,每个奖项得到提名票数最多的五部作品入围第二轮。第二轮中,每位会员为每个单项的入围作品排名,根据总的得票情况决出最终的获奖作品。

大刘谈得奖

在之前和媒体的连线采访中,刘慈欣曾表示,今年的雨果奖“含金量大大减少”,因为“有两个组织刷票,《三体》在提名阶段经历的两出两进和最终入围,其实也是他们经常内部斗争的一个结果。”他坦言:“有实力的奖都被各方弄下去了,大量的人投那种不设奖项的票,比如说我这个奖就空缺,可能最后反而是最没实力的阴差阳错的得了。”

“三体以外其他的整体的情况并不比多少年前好多少,作品也好,作家也好都缺乏影响力,仍然是固定在一个局限的读者圈子里,当然有一些突破就是说比如说像中国的一些科幻小说都走出国门,在自然杂志上也发表科幻小说…… 这些也都是一个成果,但总得来说这种成果是局部性的,从整体来看中国科幻的市场,整体的局面和多少年前整体上并没有太大的改观”。

《三体》和中国科幻文学

《冰与火之歌》的作者乔治·马丁提到,《三体》中对文革的描写非常令人着迷,但刘慈欣却说自己并不十分在意科幻与现实之间的联系,也并非刻意选择文革这样的背景,一切都是为了更好地表现作品来服务。选择这个时代背景只是为了给读者的想象力提供平台,绝没有企图用科幻小说去反映现实、批判现实。他始终认为科幻文学属于通俗文学,最重要的应该是“好看”,思想性都是建立在好看的基础上,科幻小说没有好看这个基础的话再有思想性也很难被大家所认识。

在谈及中国科幻文学发展现状时,刘慈欣认为除《三体》外的科幻作品所面临的局面虽然有所突破,但仍然“不容乐观”,整体来看比多年前并没有太大的改观。

“虽然说中华文化没有科幻基因,科幻文学纯粹是明末清初时期的舶来品,但缺乏科幻思维和科幻传统并非导致该状况的原因,事实上,这种困境并非中国独有,科幻文学独有的,除美国外的其他各国的科幻文学都差不多都面临这种局面,其他的类型文学也都处于一种很衰弱的状态。”

2015-08-23 15:49:29 来源: 虎嗅网(北京) 《三体》获雨果奖,是由宇航员在太空宣布的
http://www.huxiu.com/article/123947/1.html

作者: tea    时间: 2015-8-24 20:29
标题: 1 The Madness Years (China, 1967)

1

The Madness Years


China, 1967

The Red Union had been attacking the headquarters of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade for two days. Their red flags fluttered restlessly around the brigade building like flames yearning for firewood.

The Red Union commander was anxious, though not because of the defenders he faced. The more than two hundred Red Guards of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade were mere greenhorns compared with the veteran Red Guards of the Red Union, which was formed at the start of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in early 1966. The Red Union had been tempered by the tumultuous experience of revolutionary tours around the country and seeing Chairman Mao in the great rallies in Tiananmen Square.

But the commander was afraid of the dozen or so iron stoves inside the building, filled with explosives and connected to each other by electric detonators. He couldn’t see them, but he could feel their presence like iron sensing the pull of a nearby magnet. If a defender flipped the switch, revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike would all die in one giant ball of fire.

And the young Red Guards of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade were indeed capable of such madness. Compared with the weathered men and women of the first generation of Red Guards, the new rebels were a pack of wolves on hot coals, crazier than crazy.

The slender figure of a beautiful young girl emerged at the top of the building, waving the giant red banner of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade. Her appearance was greeted immediately by a cacophony of gunshots. The weapons attacking her were a diverse mix: antiques such as American carbines, Czech-style machine guns, Japanese Type-38 rifles; newer weapons such as standard-issue People’s Liberation Army rifles and submachine guns, stolen from the PLA after the publication of the “August Editorial”1; and even a few Chinese dadao swords and spears. Together, they formed a condensed version of modern history.

Numerous members of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade had engaged in similar displays before. They’d stand on top of the building, wave a flag, shout slogans through megaphones, and scatter flyers at the attackers below. Every time, the courageous man or woman had been able to retreat safely from the hailstorm of bullets and earn glory for their valor.

The new girl clearly thought she’d be just as lucky. She waved the battle banner as though brandishing her burning youth, trusting that the enemy would be burnt to ashes in the revolutionary flames, imagining that an ideal world would be born tomorrow from the ardor and zeal coursing through her blood.… She was intoxicated by her brilliant, crimson dream until a bullet pierced her chest.

Her fifteen-year-old body was so soft that the bullet hardly slowed down as it passed through it and whistled in the air behind her. The young Red Guard tumbled down along with her flag, her light form descending even more slowly than the piece of red fabric, like a little bird unwilling to leave the sky.

The Red Union warriors shouted in joy. A few rushed to the foot of the building, tore away the battle banner of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade, and seized the slender, lifeless body. They raised their trophy overhead and flaunted it for a while before tossing it toward the top of the metal gate of the compound.

Most of the gate’s metal bars, capped with sharp tips, had been pulled down at the beginning of the factional civil wars to be used as spears, but two still remained. As their sharp tips caught the girl, life seemed to return momentarily to her body.

The Red Guards backed up some distance and began to use the impaled body for target practice. For her, the dense storm of bullets was now no different from a gentle rain, as she could no longer feel anything. From time to time, her vinelike arms jerked across her body softly, as though she were flicking off drops of rain.

And then half of her young head was blown away, and only a single, beautiful eye remained to stare at the blue sky of 1967. There was no pain in that gaze, only solidified devotion and yearning.

And yet, compared to some others, she was fortunate. At least she died in the throes of passionately sacrificing herself for an ideal.

* * *

Battles like this one raged across Beijing like a multitude of CPUs working in parallel, their combined output, the Cultural Revolution. A flood of madness drowned the city and seeped into every nook and cranny.

At the edge of the city, on the exercise grounds of Tsinghua University, a mass “struggle session” attended by thousands had been going on for nearly two hours. This was a public rally intended to humiliate and break down the enemies of the revolution through verbal and physical abuse until they confessed to their crimes before the crowd.

As the revolutionaries had splintered into numerous factions, opposing forces everywhere engaged in complex maneuvers and contests. Within the university, intense conflicts erupted between the Red Guards, the Cultural Revolution Working Group, the Workers’ Propaganda Team, and the Military Propaganda Team. And each faction divided into new rebel groups from time to time, each based on different backgrounds and agendas, leading to even more ruthless fighting.

But for this mass struggle session, the victims were the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities. These were the enemies of every faction, and they had no choice but to endure cruel attacks from every side.

Compared to other “Monsters and Demons,”2 reactionary academic authorities were special: During the earliest struggle sessions, they had been both arrogant and stubborn. That was also the stage in which they had died in the largest numbers. Over a period of forty days, in Beijing alone, more than seventeen hundred victims of struggle sessions were beaten to death. Many others picked an easier path to avoid the madness: Lao She, Wu Han, Jian Bozan, Fu Lei, Zhao Jiuzhang, Yi Qun, Wen Jie, Hai Mo, and other once-respected intellectuals had all chosen to end their lives.3

Those who survived that initial period gradually became numb as the ruthless struggle sessions continued. The protective mental shell helped them avoid total breakdown. They often seemed to be half asleep during the sessions and would only startle awake when someone screamed in their faces to make them mechanically recite their confessions, already repeated countless times.

Then, some of them entered a third stage. The constant, unceasing struggle sessions injected vivid political images into their consciousness like mercury, until their minds, erected upon knowledge and rationality, collapsed under the assault. They began to really believe that they were guilty, to see how they had harmed the great cause of the revolution. They cried, and their repentance was far deeper and more sincere than that of those Monsters and Demons who were not intellectuals.

For the Red Guards, heaping abuse upon victims in those two latter mental stages was utterly boring. Only those Monsters and Demons who were still in the initial stage could give their overstimulated brains the thrill they craved, like the red cape of the matador. But such desirable victims had grown scarce. In Tsinghua there was probably only one left. Because he was so rare, he was reserved for the very end of the struggle session.

Ye Zhetai had survived the Cultural Revolution so far, but he remained in the first mental stage. He refused to repent, to kill himself, or to become numb. When this physics professor walked onto the stage in front of the crowd, his expression clearly said: Let the cross I bear be even heavier.

The Red Guards did indeed have him carry a burden, but it wasn’t a cross. Other victims wore tall hats made from bamboo frames, but his was welded from thick steel bars. And the plaque he wore around his neck wasn’t wooden, like the others, but an iron door taken from a laboratory oven. His name was written on the door in striking black characters, and two red diagonals were drawn across them in a large X.

Twice the number of Red Guards used for other victims escorted Ye onto the stage: two men and four women. The two young men strode with confidence and purpose, the very image of mature Bolshevik youths. They were both fourth-year students4 majoring in theoretical physics, and Ye was their professor. The women, really girls, were much younger, second-year students from the junior high school attached to the university.5 Dressed in military uniforms and equipped with bandoliers, they exuded youthful vigor and surrounded Ye Zhetai like four green flames.

His appearance excited the crowd. The shouting of slogans, which had slackened a bit, now picked up with renewed force and drowned out everything else like a resurgent tide.

After waiting patiently for the noise to subside, one of the male Red Guards turned to the victim. “Ye Zhetai, you are an expert in mechanics. You should see how strong the great unified force you’re resisting is. To remain so stubborn will lead only to your death! Today, we will continue the agenda from the last time. There’s no need to waste words. Answer the following question without your typical deceit: Between the years of 1962 and 1965, did you not decide on your own to add relativity to the intro physics course?”

“Relativity is part of the fundamental theories of physics,” Ye answered. “How can a basic survey course not teach it?”

“You lie!” a female Red Guard by his side shouted. “Einstein is a reactionary academic authority. He would serve any master who dangled money in front of him. He even went to the American Imperialists and helped them build the atom bomb! To develop a revolutionary science, we must overthrow the black banner of capitalism represented by the theory of relativity!”

Ye remained silent. Enduring the pain brought by the heavy iron hat and the iron plaque hanging from his neck, he had no energy to answer questions that were not worth answering. Behind him, one of his students also frowned. The girl who had spoken was the most intelligent of the four female Red Guards, and she was clearly prepared, as she had been seen memorizing the struggle session script before coming onstage.

But against someone like Ye Zhetai, a few slogans like that were insufficient. The Red Guards decided to bring out the new weapon they had prepared against their teacher. One of them waved to someone offstage. Ye’s wife, physics professor Shao Lin, stood up from the crowd’s front row. She walked onto the stage dressed in an ill-fitting green outfit, clearly intended to imitate the military uniform of the Red Guards. Those who knew her remembered that she had often taught class in an elegant qipao, and her current appearance felt forced and awkward.

“Ye Zhetai!” She was clearly unused to such theater, and though she tried to make her voice louder, the effort magnified the tremors in it. “You didn’t think I would stand up and expose you, criticize you? Yes, in the past, I was fooled by you. You covered my eyes with your reactionary view of the world and science! But now I am awake and alert. With the help of the revolutionary youths, I want to stand on the side of the revolution, the side of the people!”

She turned to face the crowd. “Comrades, revolutionary youths, revolutionary faculty and staff, we must clearly understand the reactionary nature of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This is most apparent in general relativity: Its static model of the universe negates the dynamic nature of matter. It is anti-dialectical! It treats the universe as limited, which is absolutely a form of reactionary idealism.…”

As he listened to his wife’s lecture, Ye allowed himself a wry smile. Lin, I fooled you? Indeed, in my heart you’ve always been a mystery. One time, I praised your genius to your father—he’s lucky to have died early and escaped this catastrophe—and he shook his head, telling me that he did not think you would ever achieve much academically. What he said next turned out to be so important to the second half of my life: “Lin Lin is too smart. To work in fundamental theory, one must be stupid.”

In later years, I began to understand his words more and more. Lin, you truly are too smart. Even a few years ago, you could feel the political winds shifting in academia and prepared yourself. For example, when you taught, you changed the names of many physical laws and constants: Ohm’s law you called resistance law, Maxwell’s equations you called electromagnetic equations, Planck’s constant you called the quantum constant.… You explained to your students that all scientific accomplishments resulted from the wisdom of the working masses, and those capitalist academic authorities only stole these fruits and put their names on them.

But even so, you couldn’t be accepted by the revolutionary mainstream. Look at you now: You’re not allowed to wear the red armband of the “revolutionary faculty and staff”; you had to come up here empty-handed, without the status to carry a Little Red Book.… You can’t overcome the fault of being born to a prominent family in pre-revolutionary China and of having such famous scholars as parents.

But you actually have more to confess about Einstein than I do. In the winter of 1922, Einstein visited Shanghai. Because your father spoke fluent German, he was asked to accompany Einstein on his tour. You told me many times that your father went into physics because of Einstein’s encouragement, and you chose physics because of your father’s influence. So, in a way, Einstein can be said to have indirectly been your teacher. And you once felt so proud and lucky to have such a connection.

Later, I found out that your father had told you a white lie. He and Einstein had only one very brief conversation. The morning of November 13, 1922, he accompanied Einstein on a walk along Nanjing Road. Others who went on the walk included Yu Youren, president of Shanghai University, and Cao Gubing, general manager of the newspaper Ta Kung Pao. When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your father how much the boy earned each day. After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents.

This was the only time he spoke with the great scientist who changed the world. There was no discussion of physics, of relativity, only cold, harsh reality. According to your father, Einstein stood there for a long time after hearing the answer, watching the boy’s mechanical movements, not even bothering to smoke his pipe as the embers went out. After your father recounted this memory to me, he sighed and said, “In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.”

“Lower your head!” one of the male Red Guards shouted. This may actually have been a gesture of mercy from his former student. All victims being struggled against were supposed to lower their heads. If Ye did lower his head, the tall, heavy iron hat would fall off, and if he kept his head lowered, there would be no reason to put it back on him. But Ye refused and held his head high, supporting the heavy weight with his thin neck.

“Lower your head, you stubborn reactionary!” One of the girl Red Guards took off her belt and swung it at Ye. The copper belt buckle struck his forehead and left a clear impression that was quickly blurred by oozing blood. He swayed unsteadily for a few moments, then stood straight and firm again.

One of the male Red Guards said, “When you taught quantum mechanics, you also mixed in many reactionary ideas.” Then he nodded at Shao Lin, indicating that she should continue.

Shao was happy to oblige. She had to keep on talking, otherwise her fragile mind, already hanging on only by a thin thread, would collapse completely. “Ye Zhetai, you cannot deny this charge! You have often lectured students on the reactionary Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.”

“It is, after all, the explanation recognized to be most in line with experimental results.” His tone, so calm and collected, surprised and frightened Shao Lin.

“This explanation posits that external observation leads to the collapse of the quantum wave function. This is another expression of reactionary idealism, and it’s indeed the most brazen expression.”

“Should philosophy guide experiments, or should experiments guide philosophy?” Ye’s sudden counterattack shocked those leading the struggle session. For a moment they did not know what to do.

“Of course it should be the correct philosophy of Marxism that guides scientific experiments!” one of the male Red Guards finally said.

“Then that’s equivalent to saying that the correct philosophy falls out of the sky. This is against the idea that the truth emerges from experience. It’s counter to the principles of how Marxism seeks to understand nature.”

Shao Lin and the two college student Red Guards had no answer for this. Unlike the Red Guards who were still in junior high school, they couldn’t completely ignore logic.

But the four junior high girls had their own revolutionary methods that they believed were invincible. The girl who had hit Ye before took out her belt and whipped Ye again. The other three girls also took off their belts to strike at Ye. With their companion displaying such revolutionary fervor, they had to display even more, or at least the same amount. The two male Red Guards didn’t interfere. If they tried to intervene now, they would be suspected of being insufficiently revolutionary.

“You also taught the big bang theory. This is the most reactionary of all scientific theories.” One of the male Red Guards spoke up, trying to change the subject.

“Maybe in the future this theory will be disproven. But two great cosmological discoveries of this century—Hubble’s law, and observation of the cosmic microwave background–show that the big bang theory is currently the most plausible explanation for the origin of the universe.”

“Lies!” Shao Lin shouted. Then she began a long lecture about the big bang theory, remembering to splice in insightful critiques of the theory’s extremely reactionary nature. But the freshness of the theory attracted the most intelligent of the four girls, who couldn’t help but ask, “Time began with the singularity? So what was there before the singularity?”

“Nothing,” Ye said, the way he would answer a question from any curious young person. He turned to look at the girl kindly. With his injuries and the tall iron hat, the motion was very difficult.

“No … nothing? That’s reactionary! Completely reactionary!” the frightened girl shouted. She turned to Shao Lin, who gladly came to her aid.

“The theory leaves open a place to be filled by God.” Shao nodded at the girl.

The young Red Guard, confused by these new thoughts, finally found her footing. She raised her hand, still holding the belt, and pointed at Ye. “You: you’re trying to say that God exists?”

“I don’t know.”

“What?”

“I’m saying I don’t know. If by ‘God’ you mean some kind of superconsciousness outside the universe, I don’t know if it exists or not. Science has given no evidence either way.” Actually, in this nightmarish moment, Ye was leaning toward believing that God did not exist.

This extremely reactionary statement caused a commotion in the crowd. Led by one of the Red Guards on stage, another tide of slogan-shouting exploded.

“Down with reactionary academic authority Ye Zhetai!”

“Down with all reactionary academic authorities!”

“Down with all reactionary doctrines!”

Once the slogans died down, the girl shouted, “God does not exist. All religions are tools concocted by the ruling class to paralyze the spirit of the people!”

“That is a very one-sided view,” Ye said calmly.

The young Red Guard, embarrassed and angry, reached the conclusion that, against this dangerous enemy, all talk was useless. She picked up her belt and rushed at Ye, and her three companions followed. Ye was tall, and the four fourteen-year-olds had to swing their belts upward to reach his head, still held high. After a few strikes, the tall iron hat, which had protected him a little, fell off. The continuing barrage of strikes by the metal buckles finally made him fall down.

The young Red Guards, encouraged by their success, became even more devoted to this glorious struggle. They were fighting for faith, for ideals. They were intoxicated by the bright light cast on them by history, proud of their own bravery.…

Ye’s two students had finally had enough. “The chairman instructed us to ‘rely on eloquence rather than violence’!” They rushed over and pulled the four semicrazed girls off Ye.

But it was already too late. The physicist lay quietly on the ground, his eyes still open as blood oozed from his head. The frenzied crowd sank into silence. The only thing that moved was a thin stream of blood. Like a red snake, it slowly meandered across the stage, reached the edge, and dripped onto a chest below. The rhythmic sound made by the blood drops was like the steps of someone walking away.

A cackling laugh broke the silence. The sound came from Shao Lin, whose mind had finally broken. The laughter frightened the attendees, who began to leave the struggle session, first in trickles, and then in a flood. The exercise grounds soon emptied, leaving only one young woman below the stage.

She was Ye Wenjie, Ye Zhetai’s daughter.

As the four girls were taking her father’s life, she had tried to rush onto the stage. But two old university janitors held her down and whispered into her ear that she would lose her own life if she went. The mass struggle session had turned into a scene of madness, and her appearance would only incite more violence. She had screamed and screamed, but she had been drowned out by the frenzied waves of slogans and cheers.

When it was finally quiet again, she was no longer capable of making any sound. She stared at her father’s lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her for the rest of her life. After the crowd dispersed, she remained like a stone statue, her body and limbs in the positions they were in when the two old janitors had held her back.

After a long time, she finally let her arms down, walked slowly onto the stage, sat next to her father’s body, and held one of his already-cold hands, her eyes staring emptily into the distance. When they finally came to carry away the body, she took something from her pocket and put it into her father’s hand: his pipe.

Wenjie quietly left the exercise grounds, empty save for the trash left by the crowd, and headed home. When she reached the foot of the faculty housing apartment building, she heard peals of crazy laughter coming out of the second-floor window of her home. That was the woman she had once called mother.

Wenjie turned around, not caring where her feet would carry her.

Finally, she found herself at the door of Professor Ruan Wen. Throughout the four years of Wenjie’s college life, Professor Ruan had been her advisor and her closest friend. During the two years after that, when Wenjie had been a graduate student in the Astrophysics Department, and through the subsequent chaos of the Cultural Revolution, Professor Ruan remained her closest confidante, other than her father.

Ruan had studied at Cambridge University, and her home had once fascinated Wenjie: refined books, paintings, and records brought back from Europe; a piano; a set of European-style pipes arranged on a delicate wooden stand, some made from Mediterranean briar, some from Turkish meerschaum. Each of them seemed suffused with the wisdom of the man who had once held the bowl in his hand or clamped the stem between his teeth, deep in thought, though Ruan had never mentioned the man’s name. The pipe that had belonged to Wenjie’s father had in fact been a gift from Ruan.

This elegant, warm home had once been a safe harbor for Wenjie when she needed to escape the storms of the larger world, but that was before Ruan’s home had been searched and her possessions seized by the Red Guards. Like Wenjie’s father, Ruan had suffered greatly during the Cultural Revolution. During her struggle sessions, the Red Guards had hung a pair of high heels around her neck and streaked her face with lipstick to show how she had lived the corrupt lifestyle of a capitalist.

Wenjie pushed open the door to Ruan’s home, and she saw that the chaos left by the Red Guards had been cleaned up: The torn oil paintings had been glued back together and rehung on the walls; the toppled piano had been set upright and wiped clean, though it was broken and could no longer be played; the few books left behind had been put back neatly on the shelf.…

Ruan was sitting on the chair before her desk, her eyes closed. Wenjie stood next to Ruan and gently caressed her professor’s forehead, face, and hands—all cold. Wenjie had noticed the empty sleeping pill bottle on the desk as soon as she came in.

She stood there for a while, silent. Then she turned and walked away. She could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

But as she was about to leave Ruan’s home, Wenjie turned around for a final look. She noticed that Professor Ruan had put on makeup. She was wearing a light coat of lipstick and a pair of high heels.

The Three-Body Problem

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作者: tea    时间: 2015-8-24 20:40
标题: 2015 Hugo Award Winners Announced

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Poster of the Three Body Problem movie 《三体》电影海报

The 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, Sasquan, has announced the 2015 Hugo Award winners. 5950 valid ballots were received and counted in the final ballot.

The members of the World Science Fiction Society rejected the slate of finalists in five categories, giving No Award in Best Novella, Short Story, Related Work, Editor Short Form, and Editor Long Form. This equals the total number of times that WSFS members have presented No Award in the entire history of the Hugo Awards, most recently in 1977.

Those categories in which there were Awards presented are listed below

BEST NOVEL

The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu translator (Tor Books)

BEST NOVELETTE

“The Day the World Turned Upside Down”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Lia Belt translator (Lightspeed, 04-2014)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Adrian Alphona and Jake Wyatt, (Marvel Comics)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM

Guardians of the Galaxy, written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman, directed by James Gunn (Marvel Studios, Moving Picture Company)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM

Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried”, ” written by Graham Manson, directed by John Fawcett (Temple Street Productions, Space/BBC America)

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Julie Dillon

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Lightspeed Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams, Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant

BEST FANZINE

Journey Planet, edited by James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, Colin Harris, Alissa McKersie, and Helen J. Montgomery

BEST FANCAST

Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer)

BEST FAN WRITER

Laura J. Mixon

BEST FAN ARTIST

Elizabeth Leggett

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2012 or 2013, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).

Wesley Chu

The 2015 Hugo Award winners were announced on Saturday evening, August 22, at the INB Performing Arts Center in Spokane, Washington. The ceremony was hosted by David Gerrold and Tananarive Due. Text-based CoverItLive coverage of the ceremony was provided through the Hugo Awards web site. Video streaming coverage was provided by UStream.

The 2015 Hugo trophy base was designed by Matthew Dockrey

The full order of finish in each category and links to the nomination and voting details are available on the 2015 Hugo Awards page.

2015 Hugo Award Winners Announced | Posted on August 22, 2015 by Kevin

http://www.thehugoawards.org/2015/08/2014-hugo-award-winners-announced/


作者: tea    时间: 2015-8-24 20:45
标题: My Final Hugo Ballot - Amazing Stories

Note:  Below my commentary & critiques on various nominees, you will find a screen-captured reproduction of my final ballot, the one submitted electronically to Sasquan.
Notes on various awards

Best Novel.

Only three works were eligible for consideration based on my determination not to reward the pupfans who thought it would be funny to poke the SJW’s in the eye by way of screwing with a 75 year old tradition.* They were:

Ancillary Sword, Goblin Emperor, The Three Body Problem

I gave the top slot to Ancillary Sword after having made it about a third of the way through Three Body Problem. I’d originally expected to be giving the top slot to TBP; I’d heard great things about it from the translator and I’ve been championing the community’s engagement with Chinese works for about a year now. Unfortunately, I found TBP to be slow to develop, and, at least for me, a bit off in its metaphor and simile. I found some of that to be jarring rather than descriptive.

Ancillary Sword, on the other hand, was an even quicker read for me than Justice (probably so at least partially due to being familiar and comfortable with the gender play), and I found it to be perhaps an even stronger story than Justice, and certainly a middle third that transcends the usual problems of middle thirds of trilogies.

I don’t do fantasy (my fault: I just can’t get past the initial premise that nothing in the story is potentially real) and have given it the third slot out of courtesy at this point in time. Now that I’ve gotten the Hugo Packet, I’ve had a chance to skim GE.  I’m leaving it in the number three slot, despite its apparent love of faux ye olde englysh in the dialogue.

The fourth slot is, and will remain, for No Award, as the remaining two entries were slatened entries.  I was hoping that Anderson and Butcher would at least state something regarding their inclusion publicly, though I understand their reluctance to screw with their successful careers by getting mired in the politics.  At this point in time they’ll pretty much piss off a segment of their audience no matter what they say.  Sorry guys, for whatever “guilt by association” may be present here, but you are on the slate, you’ve not written anything to disabuse me of the presumption that you are there willingly and I promised myself and everyone reading the website that I would vote ANYTHING on ANY slate below No Award – despite whatever personal feelings I may have about their individual worthiness.

Best Novella

All slatened works.  Therefore, No Award, and only No Award.  You may disagree with my position, but you will at least get consistency.

OK.  I tried to read Flow by Andrews.  I was done inside of the first column of the first page, but continued scanning further out of some twisted sense of responsibility.  It came across as flat, uninteresting and labored, with lines like these:

After taking the bag of coppers for the berg information and giving over The Tharn’s accountant a third of the take, Rist had questioned the winning broker about the final destination of his purchased bergs. “What do you care, boy?” the grizzled merchant, whose redtrimmed furs designated his merchant’s profession, snarled. “You got your coppers, in a few hands of dims I’ll get back those and more from the buyers in the Warm Lands.”
and

Each net-man was dressed in a skimpy, darkblue loincloth, wearing short black boots with spiky soles. So that’s how they move about this berg without slipping.Interesting! Better than us; they don’t need safety poles. The bulk of the men began hammering long iron poles into the surface at the front of the berg, with large hammers. The leader of the netmen, wearing what appeared to be over-sized gloves of some thick material, pulled out a cutting tool that looked like the clippers that the sewing-wen of Tharn’s town used to cut beezt hide and other materials. But it was at least three times as large. These gloves, these tools, were made for larger People, Rist thought. Why don’t they make smaller ones, for themselves? He carved that question on his totem, for later analysis
(The net-men need gloves but they only wear “skimpy dark blue loincloths” ? Okay….)

Where’s Rists fur-trimmings?  What color are they and what profession do they designate?  Obviously, there is no need to go on.

Big Boys Don’t Cry by Tom Kratman.

Well.  Hmmm.  I like Laumer’s BOLOs better.

Fan Writer.

Laura Mixon, hands down.  I read all of her coverage of “Benjanungate” and thought it an excellent piece of reportage.

The rest?  Maybe I’m being overly sensitive, but doesn’t it seem a bit over the top to offer up writing samples that focus on the SJW/Puppy kerfuffle?  Like we haven’t seen enough of that already?  All over the place?

These pieces by Freer, Green, Sanderson & Johnson.  Just.  No.  I think about the only way they’d qualify for consideration for a Hugo for Fan Writer (other than their obvious willingness to advance a political agenda at the expense of fandom) would be if they’d been packaged in a fanzine that was meant to be obvious parody.  That we’re meant to take these screeds seriously is an insult to fandom, the intellect and (almost) humanity.

I know some of these writers cover subjects other than their faux butt-hurts.  Maybe you all shoulda given us something other than political screeds to read.  Just sayin.

Best Editor Awards

Yes, some of them do absolutely fine work, largely unsung.  Perhaps they should have recused themselves from the slates.

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.

This category really pisses me off at the puppies.  I’ve never kicked a puppy in my life, but they’re making me think long and hard about looking for breeds that resemble the perpetrators….

I know that many have argued that BDPF & SF have little to no connection to the Hugos (though many producers have been quite happy to accept on in the past) and that we probably ought not to expect those responsible to be so involved with the awards that they should have publicly distanced themselves from the slates.  I know that others have also argued that the items on the Long Form list would most likely be there anyway, slate or no.  But here’s one of the lessons I learned from reading Heinlein:  if you say you’re going to do something, you follow through with it, no matter how unpleasant it may be.

In a slateless year that found Guardians of the Galaxy on the final ballot, I’d have voted it #1 and would have left all of the other nominees off the ballot (as an indication of how strongly I feel about that movie).

It’s the first film in DECADES that saw me leaving the theater with the same “gosh wow gee whiz!” feelings I had after seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars (when it was called Star Wars and only Star Wars).  My pantheon of “worthy” SF film consists of very few films:  The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, 2001, Planet of the Apes (original), The Omega Man, (perhaps a few others if I thought about it longer) and GotG.  (Star Wars fell off that list ages ago.)

But I’ll not be voting for it this year because it appeared on a slate.  Call my adherence to my stated method foolishly myopic if you will, but years from now no one is going to be able to throw in my face that I was contradictory with my vote.

I really, really, really can’t stand Cruise’s lack of acting range.  (I think I’ve actually counted up to three different facial expressions throughout all the films he’s ever appeared in.  He expressed far more emotion while jumping on Oprah’s couch than he ever has in a film.)  This is by way of saying that Edge of Tomorrow barely made the cut.  All You Need Is Kill (the book the film was “based” on) deserves a read BEFORE seeing the film.

Best Related.

Boy am I wishing there’d been a sequel to “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury” last year.

I will not stoop so low as to dignify any of these nominees with commentary.  Except to say that the Internet is about the last place I’d be looking for “wisdom”.

Graphic Story

Not into them.

Pro Artist

Dillon being the only non-slate nominee got a look.  Not all of the samples are my cup of tea, but she certainly has something going for her and I liked the character diversity.  (If you want to call that “voting for a political cause”, go right ahead.  You’d be wrong:  I like Dillon’s inclusion of racial types other than white because it makes her illustrations more interesting.  I don’t know about you, but staring at white bread all breakfast long gets boring REAL fast.  Throw in some pumpernickel and some rye, a bagel or two, even an off-white english muffin and I start thinking about wanting to wake up.

Fancast

Another category that doesn’t float my boat.  (I’m still trying to figure out how people find the time to listen.  Maybe it’s age, but I can’t read and listen (at least not with any lasting comprehension);  I don’t have a long commute and I just can’t sit there and listen without doing something else.  Which of course distracts me from the listen.

Best Fan Artist

Steve Stiles.  It’s about time.  Love them all, but it’s long past time for Steve.

So there you have it.  I’ve gone through the packet, read the screeds, the marginally mediocre fiction (and some good stuff too) and made my picks while sticking to my publicly stated methodology, which was (for completeness sake) that:

I would look at all of the works and then proceed to place any AND ALL works appearing on slates below No Award.

Which, unlike slates, is supported by BOTH the rules AND the intent of the awards.

*There are two epithets apparently fond to the puppy heart:  “poke SJWs in the eye” and “make SJW heads explode”.  This has caused me to wonder if perhaps the puppies believe that SJW’s have a self-destruct switch located behind one of their eyeballs, and makes me wonder if it is first necessary to poke an SJW in the eye in order to make their heads explode.

Here it is, screen captured right from the Sasquan website.

The image below represents my current final ballot. Things may very well change once I’ve had a chance to read everything on the ballot – though I very much doubt it.
Following the ballot image, you’ll find an explanation of how and why I voted the way I did for each awards category.




Steve Davidson  Amazing Stories | My Final Hugo Ballot - Amazing Stories
http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2015/05/final-hugo-ballot/


作者: 名本    时间: 2015-8-26 08:00
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