《三体》外星人入侵欧美!

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《三体》英文版第一部11日正式在亚马逊开售。出版商打出了“中国畅销科幻小说，英文版首次上市”的标语，吸引了全世界科幻迷的目光。

《三体》也的确不负众望，其精装版与Kindle版首日销量就分别夺取了亚洲文学类第1名和第2名。

那国外读者究竟是如何评价这部“中国最佳科幻作品”的呢？

1. 国外专业书评怎么看？

英语国家读者终于能读到中国最受欢迎的科幻作品了！骇人听闻的时间导致了令人震惊的结论。在理念上，《三体》让人联想到《2001太空漫游》和《环形世界》，但带有政治和文化背景的情节，是会令多数西方读者感到新鲜的。

——《科克斯书评》将《三体》英文版第一部评为11月力荐的科幻小说。

硬科幻的粉丝们，一定会陶醉于这部情节复杂又富于想象的小说，而且它的作者还是中国最著名的科幻作家。刘慈欣成功地在科学前沿打造了故事的主题，尝试着为探索自然奥秘的科学之力设定极限，同时也未疏于刻画事件和人物。他流畅的笔触甚至为三部曲的第二部，也巧妙地打下了基调。

——《出版者周刊》

外星人截获了来自地球的信号，并计划侵略地球。面对外星人的企图，地球人分裂为两大阵营——一方期盼外星人能帮助他们扫除社会的黑暗，一方则决定抵抗入侵。这故事最终化为这部格局庞大、视野恢宏的科幻神作。

——美国最大科幻出版社，托尔出版社

《三体》系列的成功，让它在中国小众却繁荣的科幻小说界赢得了人们的喜爱，也让刘慈欣成为了几十年来最畅销的中国科幻小说作家。除了喜欢科幻的高中生和大学生以外，中国航空航天业和互联网界的人也很喜欢这套书。《三体》唤醒了中国的一个文学类型，和在其他地方一样，也没有人去深究它的文学成就。

——《纽约时报》

作者刘慈欣借用了物理学的“三体问题”，在小说中引入了三个物体间的复杂运动。但这名发电站工程师指出，“三体问题”其实也暗指了地球的环境危机。

——《华尔街日报》

2. 科幻小说家们怎么看？

或许，《三体》体现了这样一个事实——中国社会正在迅速工业化。中国人也越来越多地为全世界而思考，不再只是站在本民族的角度，而是要为全人类着想。中国人开始关心自己从何而来、身处何方、将往何处，关心起这个星球乃至全宇宙的命运了。

——《三体》作者刘慈欣

《三体》的故事神秘莫测、阴谋丛生、角色鲜明。当然这其中还产生了非常有趣的科学预言和哲学思考。整个故事想要解决的是关于生存的终极问题，作者用史诗将它讲述了出来。

——《三体》英文版第一部的译者、华裔科幻小说家刘宇昆

许多著名的现代美国科幻作家都拒绝再写外星人入侵的故事，但我觉得这种黄金时代的经典科幻类型并没有消失，《三体》系列从某种程度上戳中了读过这类书的人的儿时回忆，同时又带来不同于美式科幻的东西。

——《三体》英文版第一部的编辑Liz Gorinsky

我很喜欢复杂而庞大的机械结构，所以为《三体》设计封面时，我参考了伽里略博物馆的许多材料，比如古老的浑天仪。而我最终画出的精密机构，能给人一种“来自上天”的感受。

——《三体》英文版的封面设计Stephan Martinie?re

顶尖的科幻小说，让人读来始终觉得既熟悉又奇特。

——著名科幻小说家Kim Stanley Robinson

《三体》当得起任何赞誉。它是一部超乎寻常的小说，刘宇昆流畅自然的翻译也一样。

——著名科幻小说作家Mike Resnick

《三体》对北美的读者来说是某种意义上的“第一次”：它是这样一部科幻——深入探究了中国动乱时期的人心，以及与之相关的、影响到当今世界的神秘阴谋。结果是，这个故事里的每个回答都制造出更多的悬念。

——加拿大籍华裔科幻作家Derwin Mak

彻彻底底的杰作，对这书用这个词一点都不过分。

——以色列著名科幻作家、科幻文学理论家Lavie Tidhar

生动、极具想象力并且依托于前沿科学，《三体》思考了我们时代的诸多重大问题。刘慈欣站在了无论任何语言的推测思索性小说的顶峰。刘宇昆流畅的翻译让它成为了任何对探索怀有真诚激情的人的必读物。

——美国著名科幻作家、未来学者、科学家，NASA顾问David Brin

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《三体》英文版试读内容摘录：

Wang dialed Ding Yi's number. Only when Ding picked up did he realize that it was already one in the morning.

"This is Wang Miao. I'm sorry to be calling so late."

"No problem. I can't sleep anyway."

"I have... seen something, and I'd like your help. Do you know if there are any facilities in China that are observing the cosmic microwave background?" Wang had the urge to talk to someone about what was going on, but he thought it best to not let too many people know about the countdown that only he could see.

"The cosmic microwave background? What made you interested in that? I guess you really have run into some problems.... Have you been to see Yang Dong's mother yet?"

"Ah - I'm sorry. I forgot."

"No worries. Right now, many scientists have... seen something, like you. Everyone's distracted. But I think it's still best if you go visit her. She's getting on in years, and she won't hire a caretaker. If there's some task around the home that she needs help with, please help her... Oh, right, the cosmic microwave background. You can ask Yang's mother. Before she retired, she was an astrophysicist. She's very familiar with such facilities in China."

"Good! I'll go after work today."

"Then I'll thank you in advance. I really can't face anything that reminds me of Yang Dong again."

After hanging up, Wang sat in front of his computer and printed out the simple Morse code chart. By now he was calm enough to turn his thoughts away from the countdown. He pondered the Frontiers of Science, Shen Yufei, and the computer game she had been playing. The only thing he knew for certain about Shen was that she wasn't the type to enjoy computer games. She spoke like a telegraph and gave him the impression that she was always extremely cold. It wasn't the kind of coldness that some people put on like a mask - hers suffused her all the way through.

Wang subconsciously thought of her as the long-obsolete DOS operating system: a blank, black screen, a bare "C:\>" prompt, a blinking cursor. Whatever you entered, it echoed back. Not one extra letter and not a single change. But now he knew that behind the "C:\>" was a bottomless abyss.

She's actually interested in a game? A game that requires a V-suit? She has no kids, which means she bought the V-suit for herself. The very idea is preposterous.

Wang entered the address for the game into the browser. It had been easy to memorize: www.3body.net. The site indicated that the game only supported access via V-suit. Wang remembered that the employee lounge at the Nanotechnology Research Center had a V-suit. He left the now-empty main lab and went to the security office to get the key. In the lounge, he passed the pool tables and the exercise machines and found the V-suit next to a computer. He struggled into the haptic feedback suit, put on the panoramic viewing helmet, and turned on the computer.

After entering the game, Wang found himself in the middle of a desolate plain at dawn. The plain was dun-colored, blurry, its details hard to make out. In the distance, there was a sliver of white light on the horizon. Twinkling stars covered the rest of the sky.

There was a loud explosion, and two red-glowing mountains crashed against the earth in the distance. The whole plain was bathed in red light. When the dust finally cleared from the sky, Wang saw two giant words erected between the sky and the earth: three body.

Next came a registration screen. Wang created the ID "Hairen," and logged in.*

*Translator's Note: Hairen means "Man of the Sea." This is a play on Wang Miao's name, which can be read to mean "sea."

汪淼拨通了丁仪的电话，对方接听后，他才想起现在已是凌晨一点多了。

“我是汪淼，真对不起，这么晚打扰。”

“没关系，我正失眠。”

“我……遇到一些事，想请你帮个忙。你知道国内有观测宇宙背景辐射的机构吗？”汪淼产生了一种倾诉的欲望，但旋即觉得幽灵倒计时之事目前还是不要让更多的人知道为好。

“宇宙背景辐射，你怎么对这个有雅兴？看来你真的遇到一些事了……你去看过杨冬的母亲吗？”

“啊——真对不起，我忘了。”

“没关系。现在科学界，很多人都像你说的那样遇到了一些事，心不在焉的，不过你最好还是去看看她，她年纪大了，又不愿雇保姆，要是有什么费力气的事麻烦你帮着干干……哦，宇宙背景辐射的事，你正好可以去找杨冬的母亲问问，她退休前是搞天体物理专业的，与国内的这类研究机构很熟。”

“好好，我今天下班就去。”

“那先谢谢了，我是真的无法再面对与杨冬有关的一切了。”

打完电话后，汪淼坐到电脑前，开始打印网页上显示的那张很简单的莫尔斯电码对照表。这时他已经冷静下来，将思绪从倒计时上移开，想着关于“科学边界”和申玉菲的事，想到她玩的网络游戏。关于申玉菲，他能肯定的唯一一件事就是她不是爱玩游戏的人，这个说话如电报般精简的女人给他唯一的印象就是冷，她的冷与其他的某些女性不同，不是一张面具，而是从里到外冷透了。

汪淼总是下意识地将她与早已消失的DOS操作系统联系在一起，一面空荡荡的黑屏幕，只有一个简单得不能再简单的“c：>”提示符在闪动，你输入什么它就输出什么。一个字都不会多。也不会有变化。现在他知道，“C:>”提示符后面其实是一个无底深渊。

她真会有兴致玩游戏，而且是戴着V装具玩儿？她没有孩子，那套V装具只能是自己买回去用的，这有些不可思议。

汪淼在浏览器的地址栏中输入那个很容易记住的游戏网址：www.threebody.com。网页上显示该游戏只支持V装具方式。汪淼想起了纳米中心的职工娱乐室里好像有一套V装具，就走出已经空荡荡的中心实验大厅。去值班室要了钥匙，在娱乐室中穿过一排台球桌和健身器材。在一台电脑旁找到了V装具。费了很大劲才把感应服穿上。然后戴上显示头盔。启动电脑。

启动游戏后，汪森置身于一片黎明之际的荒原，荒原呈暗褐色，细节看不清楚，远方地平线上有一小片白色的曙光，其余的天空则群星闪烁。一声巨响，两座发着红光的山峰砸落在远方的大地上，整个荒原笼罩在红色光芒之中。被激起的遮天蔽日的尘埃散去后，汪淼看清了那两个顶天立地的大字：三体。

随后出现了一个注册界面，汪淼用“海人”这个ID注册，然后成功登录。