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译者点评:拉里·尼文(LarryNiven,1938-),美国著名科幻作家。4次获雨果短篇小说奖,长篇小说《环形世界》获1971年雨果奖和星云奖。此外,还有其他不少获奖小说。他的早期作品形成了一个系列,称之为“已知宇宙科幻系列”该系列的时间跨度从当代至31世纪,描述人类殖民宇宙的过程和艰辛。《环形世界》是该系列中的一部尼文是“硬科幻小说”的代表作家,继承了阿西莫夫、克拉克和海因莱因等大师的科幻小说传统。科学和技术主宰了他的全部科幻小说。小说《玩具》,表述了人类探索宇宙过程中可能遇到的情况,即其他文明世界的智慧生物可能在地球人之前,首先征服乃至改造了某个荒芜的星球,或者改造自己使之适应异星的生态环境。
Translator Comments: Larry Niven (Larry Niven, 1938 -), the famous American science fiction writer. Hugo short story award 4 times, the novel “Ring World” won the 1971 Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. In addition, there are many other winning novels. His early works formed a series called “The Universe of Science Fiction known as the Universe,” which spanned the period from the present to the 31st century and described the process and hardships of the human colonization of the universe. “Ring of the World” is one of the series of Nevin is “hard science fiction ” representative writers, inherited the Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein and other masters of science fiction tradition. Science and technology dominate all of his science fiction. The novel Toy expresses what human beings may encounter during the exploration of the universe. That is, the intelligent creatures in other civilizations may first conquer or even transform a deserted planet before the earth, or adapt themselves to different stars The ecological environment.