The Time Ships
H.G.ウェルズの『タイム・マシン』の正統的続編として書かれたハードSF。時間旅行者がさらに未来や別の時間流を旅し、文明の興亡や時間そのものの構造を壮大なスケールで描く。
作品情報
古典の続編でありながら、時間そのものを解体する大スケールの冒険。
Stephen Baxter が Wells の原作を起点に、時間旅行の論理と宇宙史の想像力を極限まで広げる。継承作でありながら、独立した壮大な SF として読める。
レビュー要約
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続編としての大胆さと時間スケールの大きさが称賛されるが、感情面の距離を指摘する声もある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Collins
- 発売日
- 1995-05-25
- ページ数
- 362ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.9 x 2.56 x 24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780002246095
- ISBN-10
- 0002246090
- 価格
- 31816 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction
The highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wells’s THE TIME MACHINE. Written to celebrate the centenary of the publication of H G Wells’s classic story The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter’s stunning sequel is an outstanding work of imaginative fiction. The Time Traveller has abandoned his charming and helpless Eloi friend Weena to the cannibal appetites of the Morlocks, the devolved race of future humans from whom he was forced to flee. He promptly embarks on a second journey to the year AD 802,701, pledged to rescue Weena. He never arrives! The future was changed by his presence… and will be changed again. Hurled towards infinity, the Traveller must resolve the paradoxes building around him in a dazzling temporal journey of discovery. He must achieve the impossible if Weena is to be saved.
Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn’t make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
レビュー
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人気作品、挿絵つき！
翻訳されてかなり人気の高い作品。いわずもがなの「タイムマシン」公式続編であります。 バクスター作品の中では一番面白いのはないでしょうか？ 原書である本書には若干挿絵も入ってて楽しいです。英語でもそれほどきつくありません。他のバクスター作品よりも、ハードＳＦ度が若干緩和されていて読みやすいと思います。是非読んでみてください。
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私には難しすぎ
ウェルズのタイムマシンの公式続編で、あの時間旅行者が再び旅に出ます。 連作短編風に超文明を築いたモーロックの世界、ドイツの空襲に怯えるドームに覆われたロンドン、暁新世を舞台にサバイバル生活等などが描かれています。 ただ、私には英語が難しすぎて、最後の100ページはおおよその筋を追うのが精一杯で、理論的な説明の理解やSF的なカタルシスを味わうことが十分に出来ませんでした。 いずれ再挑戦したいと思います。
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Great sequel to The Time Machine but by a different author. Maybe even better than the first book.
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A very beautiful and enthralling sequel to The Time Machine. Grips and intrigues from start to finish. Warmly recommended!
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Este livro em inglês, continuação de A Máquina do Tempo de H.G. Wells, é um excelente livro sobre viagens no tempo, porém quase não tem enredo. É quase que totalmente focado no tema, e é muito eficiente ao lidar com ele e suas implicações. Apesar de ser tão focado no tema, também tem um desenvolvimento razoável dos personagens. Gostei do fato de ter várias viagens no tempo para futuros e passados e também mudanças feitas na linha do tempo, tudo sem se tornar apenas ciclos sem fim igual a muitas outras tramas de viagem temporal. Mas também acho que para os dias atuais não envelheceu tão bem, pois os personagens tem uma certa inocência com relação ao tema que na época do "imperialismo nerd" que vivemos não existe mais. As ideias parecem um pouco batidas para 2020. Porém nem todas, o Stephen Baxter certamente tem muita imaginação, ao ponto de algumas ideias ainda surpreenderem.
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This book picks up where the original left off with the same protagonist on his return to the future. It deals with time travel, paradoxes and multiple universes in a very creative and interesting way. This book had set in my Kindle library for about a year before I got around to it, however, I could not put it down once I started it. Highly intelligent and well written.
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I loved reading this and could not put it down until finished thus I read it within a few days! I had seen the movie Time Machine adapted from Orson Wells story and this book takes it past that and adds more to the story to make it complete and rounded out in the end. I like the spiritual aspects of it and also that is is universal for anyone to understand . I highly recommend this story for others to learn about life as we know it and the unknown as we don't know it.
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