一句话说科幻小说

2017-09-25 15:07
新东方英语·中学版 2017年9期
关键词:奇幻虚构科幻

Science fiction speaks to14) people who feel, well, "alienation".

Tamara Nichols, who practiced psychotherapy for 11 years, says, "Certainly I think everybody has that feeling of being an outsider at some point in their lives. A lot of people feel like they don't belong at all. SF hits on15) what it's like to go out into an alien environment. SF organizes the unknown in a sense, and makes it more psychologically available."

Science fiction and fantasy also appeal to other temperaments, including readers of a "romantic" nature.

"SF is called the literature of ideas, and it really is, but the ideas aren't about fusion16) or nano-tubules17) or seven schools of magic; they're the same ideas of love and anger and the human heart in conflict with itself that drive all other stories, but foregrounded18) and made new," says Maroney.

"Even [books about] distant space travel boils down to19) human emotion and human thought," says Sherry Sontag, a science fiction reader and non-fiction writer.

Then does what we read shape who we are?

I can't speak for everybody, but I read science fiction and fantasy for an even more important reason than it appeals to my critical thinking. I read SF because it's a genre full of ideas and optimism and inspiration. Hopefully, I am what I read.

科幻小说对于那些觉得,嗯,“格格不入”的人来说具有吸引力。

从事心理治疗11年的塔玛拉·尼科尔斯说:“可以肯定地说,我认为每个人都会在人生的某个时刻感到自己是个局外人,很多人觉得自己根本没有归属感。科幻小说则虚构出了走进一个陌生环境会是什么样子。科幻小说在某种意义上把未知变得有章可循,让人在心理上更能接受这个未知环境。”

科幻与奇幻文学也吸引着其他性格的人,包括生性“浪漫”的读者。

“科幻小说被称为思想文学,事实也确实如此,但科幻小說的思想并不是核聚变或纳米管或七大魔法学派,而是和推动其他所有故事发展的思想一样,也都是爱、愤怒以及内心的自我挣扎,只不过是被突出强调了,用了种新的形式。”马罗尼说。

“就连长途太空旅行[类的小说]归根结底讲的也是人的情感和思想。”非虚构小说家谢里·桑塔格如是说,她也是一位科幻小说读者。

那么,是不是我们读什么样的书就能成为什么样的人呢?

我不能代表所有人,但我自己之所以读科幻和奇幻小说,有比它能激发我进行批判性思考更重要的原因。我读这类小说是因为它是一个充满思想、乐观主义精神和灵感的文学流派。但愿我即我所读!

如果你喜欢科幻小说,或是决定从现在开始试着读读科幻小说,那么,不妨尝试读如下几本英文科幻小说。科幻不重样,故事都精彩。endprint

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