注册
正文 目录 文库目录 文库收藏 中文百科 Wiki百科
基地系列:基地前奏|Prelude to Foundation

作者的话|Authors Note

属类： 双语小说 【分类】魔幻小说 -[作者: 艾萨克-阿西莫夫] 阅读：[10174]
《基地前奏》 在《基地与地球》中广袤荒凉的星际旅程之后,《基地前奏》将镜头拉回到基地三部曲开场之前几十年,繁华的帝国之都川陀。开创整个基地故事根基.故事的时间线来到《基地》的几十年前，彼时的哈里·谢顿还未开创出完整的心理史学，只是发表了一篇论文。但正是这篇关乎可以预言未来的论文将谢顿带上一段逃亡冒险之旅。
字+字- 行+行- 页+页- 字+字- 行+行- 页+页- 》
-

当我撰写“基地”这个故事的时候（它发表于“震撼科幻小说”一九四二年五月号），根本没想到竟为一系列的故事开了个头。目前为止，它已经扩展成六部小说，共计65万字。当时我也完全没有想到，它会跟我写的有关机器人的短篇与长篇系列，以及银河帝国的长篇统一起来，至今总共累积了十四部，共计145万字。

1
-

如果您研究这些书的出版日期，将会发现一九五七至一九八二年间有长达25年的断层，其间未曾为这个系列做任何补充。并非因为当时我中止写作，事实上，在这四分之一世纪问，我一直以全速写作，只不过我写的是别的东西。我会在一九八二年重拾这个系列，其实不是我自己的意思，而是来自读者与出版者的联合压力，最后终于变得无可抵御。

2
-

无论如何，如今情况已变得足够复杂，我想读者会欢迎见到对本系列的一个简介，因为它们不是依照应该阅读的顺序写出来的。

3
-

这十四部书都由“双日”出版，可谓展现了一部未来的历史。其中内容或许不算完全一致，因为最初我并未考虑到一致性。根据未来史的年代（而不是出版日期），这些书的顺序如下：

4
-

一、《机器人短篇全集》（一九八二年）：这是由发表于一九四○至一九七六年间的31个机器人短篇组成，包括较早的《我，机器人》（一九五○年）中的每个故事。自从这个全集问世后，我只再写了一个机器人短篇，那就是《机器人之梦》，它尚未收录在任何“双日”版选集中。

5
-

二、《钢穴》（一九五四年）：这是我的第一本机器人长篇。

6
-

三、《裸阳》（一九五七年）：第二本机器人长篇。

7
-

四、《曙光中的机器人》（一九八三年）：第三本机器人长篇。

8
-

五、《机器人与帝国》（一九八五年）：第四本机器人长篇。

9
-

六、《星空暗流》（一九五一年）：这是我的第一本帝国长篇。

10
-

七、《繁星若尘》（一九五一年）：第二本帝国长篇。

11
-

八、《苍穹微石》（一九五○年）：第=！本帝国长篇。

12
-

九、《基地前奏》（一九八八年）：这是基地长篇的第一本（但也是目前为止最后完成的一本）。

13
-

十、《基地》（一九五一年）：基地长篇的第二本。事实上，它是五个故事的合集，其中四个发表于一九四二至一九四四年间，再加上一九四九年为这本书而写的一篇引介。

14
-

十一、《基地与帝国》（一九五二年）：基地长篇的第三本．由两个故事组成，最初发表于一九四五年。

15
-

十二、《第二基地》（一九五三年）：基地长篇的第四本，由两个故事组成，最初发表于一九四八与一九四九年。

16
-

十三、《基地边缘》（一九八二年）：基地长篇的第五本。

17
-

十四、《基地与地球》（一九八六年）：基地长篇的第六本。

18
-

我会在这个系列中再多加几本吗？也许我会。在《机器人与帝国》（五）与《星空暗流》（六）之间，以及《基地前奏》（九）与《基地》（十）之间都能再插一本，当然其他各册之间也都有空间。此外我还能继《基地与地球》（十四）后再写下去——爱写几本就写几本。

19
-

自然，总该有某个限制存在，因为我并不指望永生，但我打算尽可能地继续下去。

20
-

译注一：其实《星空暗流》（六）与《繁星若尘》（七）的顺序应该交换，这想必是阿西莫夫一时的笔误。

21
-

译注二：1993年出版的《迈向基地》应插在《基地前奏》（九）与《基地》（十）之间。

22
-

When I wrote "Foundation," which appeared in the May 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, I had no idea that I had begun a series of stories that would eventually grow into six volumes and a total of 650,000 words (so far). Nor did I have any idea that it would be unified with my series of short stories and novels involving robots and my novels involving the Galactic Empire for a grand total (so far) of fourteen volumes and a total of about 1,450,000 words. You will see, if you study the publication dates of these books, that there was a twenty-five-year hiatus between 1957 and 1982, during which I did not add to this series. This was not because I had stopped writing. Indeed, I wrote full-speed throughout the quarter century, but I wrote other things. That I returned to the series in 1982 was not my own notion but was the result of a combination of pressures from readers and publishers that eventually became overwhelming.

1

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

In any case, the situation has become sufficiently complicated for me to feel that the readers might welcome a kind of guide to the series, since they were not written in the order in which (perhaps) they should be read. The fourteen books, all published by Doubleday, offer a kind of history of the future, which is, perhaps, not completely consistent, since I did not plan consistency to begin with. The chronological order of the books, in terms of future history (and not of publication date), is as follows:

2

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

1.    The Complete Robot (1982). This is a collection of thirty-one robot short stories published between 1940 and 1976 and includes every story in my earlier collection I Robot (1950). Only one robot short story has been written since this collection appeared. That is "Robot Dreams," which has not yet appeared in any Doubleday collection.

3

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

2.    The Caves of Steel (1954). This is the first of my robot novels.

4

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

3.    The Naked Sun (1957). The second robot novel.

5

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

4.    The Robots of Dawn (1983). The third robot novel.

6

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

5.    Robots and Empire (1985). The fourth robot novel.

7

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

6.    The Currents of Space (1952). This is the first of my Empire novels.

8

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

7.    The Stars, Like Dust (1951). The second Empire novel.

9

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

8.    Pebble in the Sky (1950). The third Empire novel.

10

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

9.    Prelude to Foundation (1988). This is the first Foundation novel (although it is the latest written, so far).

11

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

10.    Foundation (1951). The second Foundation novel. Actually, it is a collection of four stories, originally published between 1942 and 1944, plus an introductory section written for the book in 1949.

12

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

11.    Foundation and Empire (1952). The third Foundation novel, made up of two stories, originally published in 1945.

13

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

12.    Second Foundation (1953). The fourth Foundation novel, made up of two stories, originally published in 1948 and 1949.

14

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

13.    Foundations Edge (1982). The fifth Foundation novel.

15

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

14.    Foundation and Earth (1983).

16

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

The sixth Foundation novel.

17

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

Will I add additional books to the series? I might. There is room for a book between Robots and Empire (5) and The Currents of Space (6) and between Prelude to Foundation (9) and Foundation (10) and of course between others as well. And then I can follow Foundation and Earth (14) with additional volumes--as many as I like.

18

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

Naturally, theres got to be some limit, for I dont expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

19

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

Mathematician CLEON I-- ... The last Galactic Emperor of the Entun dynasty. He was born in the year 11,988 of the Galactic Era, the same year in which Hari Seldon was born. (It is thought that Seldons birthdate, which some consider doubtful, may have been adjusted to match that of Cleon, whom Seldon, soon after his arrival on Trantor, is supposed to have encountered.)

20

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

Having succeeded to the Imperial throne in 12,010 at the age of twenty-two, Cleon Is reign represented a curious interval of quiet in those troubled times. This is undoubtedly due to the skills of his Chief of Staff, Eto Demerzel, who so carefully obscured himself from public record that little is known about him.

21

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

Cleon himself ...

22

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA

23

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
-

(All quotations from the Encyclopedia Galactica here reproduced are taken from the 116th Edition, published 1,020 FE by the Encyclopedia Galactica Publishing Co., Terminus, with permission of the publishers.)

24

读书笔记

是否公开

我的读书笔记

仅对会员开放

网友的读书笔记

仅对会员开放
道德经
论语
孙子兵法
禮記
孟子
尚書
詩經
周易
简典
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

微信小程序

微信公众号

Email:

22745823@qq.com

联系站长：

QQ:22745823

机构翻译

地址翻译

人名翻译

译典登录

译典注册

译典说明

意见反馈

浙ICP备05023696号-8