英文短篇科幻小說節選
Ⅰ 求一篇1500詞左右的英文科幻小說
Though this is a relatively short collection of stories, the strength of the tales inside it is such that they will leave the reader with flashbacks and images for days afterwards. They did me. In fact, days after reading I still remember vividly parts of its contents.
The fourteen stories included vary in scope, size and length. The book starts strongly with 態est New Horror?/I>, which deals with the premise of Eddie Carroll, a jaded horror story editor who is sent a story so memorable that it jolts him out of his malaise. The problem is that the story, 態uttonboy?/I>, is so horrific that many are sickened by it. Nevertheless, the editor sets off to find the mysterious writer, Peter Kilrue, and the story ends with something not expected. This was a very strong tale ?filmic, for reasons that are best left until you抳e read the story, and references that a fan will get.
Reminiscent in tone of Bradbury and Serling, and another famous author more contemporary, this is a collection marinated in genre and societal references; the societal references help create that feeling of normality in stories that are anything but; the genre references, which though not necessarily important to get to enjoy the stories, add another dimension to their narrative.
Fritz Leiber once pointed out that the scary things are not always gothic castles and ghostly spectres, but the unusual things that are part of our normal everyday world. This is something that Joe has clearly understood here. Part Horror, part 1950抯 SF B-movie, part surreal fantasy, the collection covers a broad range with skill, humour and, hell, an empathy for the genre抯 long history.
There are common themes throughout the book. Most of the stories are interwoven around familial relationships?the bonds between mothers/fathers and their daughters/sons - and peer friendships, between the main character and their friends.
With such a variety of interests, not all of the stories worked for me as well as others. Least successful, though still pretty good, was You Will Hear the Locust Sing, a story with a Bradbury-esque title that clearly highlights a respect for the 1950抯 B-Movies of mutant insects. Though initially amusing, by the end it was a little disappointing. Similarly, The Black Phone was a little creepy, though a weaker effort in such a strong collection. With a Weird Tales type ending that Richard Matheson would be proud of, though strong in feel, this one seemed a little too obvious to me.
My 'weirdness award' goes to My Father抯 Mask, which I抦 not sure I still understand, though it is very unsettling to read. Rather Wicker Man to me.
Having said this, most of the stories are very strong. Most successful to me were Voluntary Committal, (the final novella in the book which sympathetically deals with Nolan Lerner抯 brother, Norris, a boy with Aspberger抯 Syndrome, who has a connection with The Twilight Zone), and in a Tales from the Crypt-type tale, Last Breath, which deals with a visit to a very unusual museum. I also really enjoyed The Cape, a story about Eric抯 particular piece of clothing with a special power (or is it just self-belief?)
There are many stories like that in this book. It is a book that reads with deceptive ease, yet is supremely adept at creating ghosts. To illustrate this, Dead-Wood is a story that, in a page-and-a-half, creates an intriguing 憌hat-if?that is simultaneously beautiful, creepy, and haunting.
All good; but perhaps the biggest surprise to me was the story Pop Art, which deals with the story抯 nameless central character and his relationship with his inflatable schoolfriend, Arthur Roth. (Pop Art, get it?) On first reading, the story reads as allegorical whimsy. It takes a writer of skill, which Hill clearly is, to turn that around so that the end of the story is a powerfully moving one. Forget the practical impossibility here ?Joe makes the reader forget the impracticality to create this story with an ending that is almost painful to read.
To summarise, in this book Hill manages to combine hometown dreams and ambitions with the reality of failure, pathos, horror, humour and B-movie kitsch; all of which is achieved with surprising aplomb and an ease and skill that belies this being just labelled as 'an author抯 first book'.
Let's go further than that. Many other long-published authors would kill to be as good as just one of these stories ?it抯 that good. And one of the best story collections I抳e read in years.
Haunting, resonant, melancholic ?a collection that richly deserves its awards.
Hobbit, October 2006
Ⅱ 有關太空或科幻的英語短文，急求~~
Pychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams. A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history of
Pychologists have confirmed what writers have always believed: that books are literally the stuff of dreams.
A survey has confirmed that readers of Iris Murdoch or JK Rowling are more likely to have bizarre dreams than people deep into a history of the crusades. People with a taste for fiction experienced dreams that contained more improbable events, and their dreams were more emotionally intense. The survey also found that people who read thrillers were no more likely to have nightmares. But those with a weakness for science fiction were rather more likely to wake up suddenly with a cold sweat.
The study, according to Mark Blagrove, of the University of Wales, is perhaps the first experiment to determine a link between the waking world and dreams. Dr Blagrove and colleagues distributed 100,000 questionnaires about sleep patterns and literary tastes, and got more than 10,000 replies.
They found that 58% of all alts had experienced at least one dream in which they were aware they were dreaming ?nbsp;and that women could recall more dreams than men. Older people seemed to dream less and have fewer nightmares.
Around 44% of children said their dreams were affected by the books they had been reading. "Children who report reading scary books have three times the number of nightmares as children who don't," said Dr Blagrove.
心理學家證實了作家們一直以來的信念：書籍的確是夢的素材。
一項調查證明，讀愛麗絲·默多克或是羅琳的作品的人比鑽研十字軍東征史的人更容易做怪夢，而小說愛好者的夢帶有更強烈的感情色彩，其中包含的奇異事件也更多。調查還發現讀恐怖小說的人並不一定會多做噩夢，而喜歡科幻小說的人卻更容易帶著一身冷汗驚醒。
按照威爾士大學的馬克·布拉格羅夫的說法，這項研究可能是考察夢與現實之間關系的第一次實驗。布拉格羅夫博士和他的同事發出了10萬份關於睡眠型態與閱讀趣味的調查問卷並收到了超過1萬份回復。
他們發現成人中有58%做過至少一次這樣的夢：在其中他們知道自己在做夢。他們還發現女性能比男性記起更多的夢境。老年人的夢似乎要少一些，也更少做噩夢。
大約44%的孩子說他們正在閱讀的書籍影響到了他們的夢境。布拉格羅夫博士說：「正在讀嚇人的書籍的孩子做噩夢的次數是那些沒讀孩子的3倍。」
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英語短文：星球大戰重返銀幕
核心提示： Star Wars Returns to the Screens星球大成重返銀幕IN THIS ARTICLE： One of the biggest blockbuster movie series， the Star WStar Wars Returns to the Screens
星球大成重返銀幕
IN THIS ARTICLE： One of the biggest blockbuster movie series， the Star Wars cycle created by George Lucas， has returned to the screen， with the prequel titled Star Wars： Episode 1－－The Phantom Menace。
Once， when a movie was successful there used to be a sequel， a follow－up film destined to build on the popularity of its predecessor and extend the life of the story at the box office。
Now there is the prequel。 After the success of the great Star Wars trilogy－－Star Wars （1977）， The Empire Strikes Back （1980） and Return of the Jedi （1983）－－procer George Lucas has come up with the movie which preceded the famous story of good and evil forces battling it out across the galaxy。
This preceding movie，orprequel， Star Wars： Episode 1－－－－The Phantom Menace （1999） sets the scene for the Star Wars trilogy， with the introction of characters such as the all－seeing old man of wisdom， Obi－Wan Kenobi， and the evil Darth Vader。
When Star Wars was introced in 1977， it set new standards。 Writes film critic Colin Hogg： 『A long， long time ago in a galaxy far away，『 begins 『Star Wars『， the 『Gone With the Wind『 of science fiction movies， the epic that made the stars in the sky the stars of the movie screen and did more than any other film to bring that 『other world『 out there in the darkness into the hearts and minds of a generation。
本文簡介：由喬治盧卡斯創造的、耗巨資拍攝的最宏大的電影系列之一《星球大戰》故事又回到了銀幕上。這部前傳名叫《星球大戰：第一集－－－－幽靈的威脅》。－－－－編者
一旦一部影片成功了，往往就會有一部續集出現，這部緊隨其後的電影註定是建立在前一部影片的名氣之上並在票房收入方面延續該故事生命的。
現在則有了前傳。在了不起的《星球大戰》三部曲－－－－《星球大戰》（1977），《帝國反擊戰》（1980）和《傑迪的歸來》（又譯：《武士的歸來》（1983）－－－－成功之後，製作人喬治盧卡斯又推出了一部新片，講述的是銀河系善惡力量決一勝負的這個著名故事之前的故事。
這個之前的故事，或稱前傳，《星球大戰：第一集－－－－幽靈的威脅》（1999）以介紹諸如洞悉一切的智慧老人、奧比溫肯諾比和惡魔達思威德等人物為《星球大戰》三部曲作了鋪墊與銜接。
當《星球大戰》在1977年初次面世的時候，它樹立了一些新標准。電影評論家科林霍格寫道：很久很久以前，在遙遠的銀河繫上開始的星球大戰，是科幻電影中的飄，是使太空中的群星成為銀幕上明星的史詩，沒有任何一部電影像它這樣將那個在黑暗中的另一個世界帶進一代人的心裡和意識中。
威爾斯這部發表於1898年的科幻小說《世界大戰》，被斯皮爾伯格搬上大熒幕。小說對外星人的外貌特徵進行了直接描寫，這也成了後來20世紀美國科幻小說「黃金時代」的一大特徵。
Ⅳ 最短的科幻小說 英文加翻譯
Fredric Brown's "Knock"published in Thrillering Wonder Stories 1948:
"The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...."
這就是全文!
Ⅳ 最短的科幻小說 原文..
地球上最後一個人獨自坐在房間里，這時，忽然響起了敲門聲……
英文原文：The last man on earth sat alone in a room.There was a knock on the door..
Ⅵ 牛人進，超奇怪英文科幻短文~~~
之前，我們見過面，你給我看你的日記。
我必須承認，我仍然感到困惑，這事件的順序，正如我想像，您必須困惑，我決定離開你的生活如此突然。我已經經歷過的一切，我的頭時間和一次又一次，我不能動搖的感覺，不知何故，一切都得到混合起來。雖然這可能似乎站不住腳的理由給你，這是有足夠的理由對我來說。我不明白，所以我要離開。
之前，我們見過面，你給我看你的日記，然後我們有性別對木地板的客廳里。我還記得的方式植物過濾陽光和良好的茶水壺建設蒸汽。那麼，我們的兒子是在腳下的床上，問我您要消失。
「我不知道， 」我告訴他， 「我期待著她離開，馬上回來」 。
今天我走進你的研究和發現，您要轉換成一個畫廊。第一張照片，每卷的電影，我們要不斷的發展是有，某處。我發現我可以每一個日期，即使是那些沒有發生。他們似乎永遠繼續下去，一個混亂的爛攤子的美好的回憶，每一個部分掩蓋致盲白光。 i撞倒一缸充滿tacks但是，當我到自己去取，我是克服眩暈，我不得不離開。
我們正在絕望的愛在你的地下室時，你告訴我關於時空。你說未來是，正如真正的作為過去。你告訴我，只是因為你是不存在，但並不意味著它是不是真正的。你說，這是想在巴格達仍被真正當您在倫敦。您談到了個人的時間和輕錐和折疊的空間和我並不明白什麼除外的方式，您的乳房動議的方式和您的呼氣misted在冷戰。然後我們就過山車和你尖叫和你說： 「這是什麼的，將會如同所有的時間」 。熱氣球賣方失去掌握他的創作和他們浮動majestically到天空。這是美麗的。
之後，你介紹了自己，我們恢復我們的日期和我問你再次為什麼您要選擇一個驅動器-在。你告訴我，您有一個特別的軟現貨在你的心的B電影。你說有一些endearing關於語重心長這一切。你說，他們所謂的向我們想像的方式，大預算的電影再也不能達到的目標。你說所有的科幻小說-無論多麼令人沮喪的-是樂觀的，因為它假定會有未來在所有。我們在董事局會議室和你解釋，組裝組投資者的有關機器。他們面帶微笑和點頭。他們沒有真正理解，但專家們告訴他們，你的想法表明的承諾，畢竟，戰爭是對的。咖啡嘗到了可怕的和我一直fidgeting在我的座位。你的輻射。沒有人想到要問會發生什麼事，如果機器發生。
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今天，我觀看了一個雞蛋組裝本身對廚房的地板。它提出了奇怪的噪音出現，作為最後一點，蛋殼的重視本身。它飛到到空氣中和起來，然後來休息的櫃台。直升機轟鳴，間接費用和我們的兒子來到在和告訴我，他很害怕。我不知道該怎麼告訴他。戰爭已經開始，沒有人可以說是如何或何時會結束。
我記得您的反應，當您閱讀這封信。我記得如何的最後一行，在那裡我說： 「我們並不意味生活像這樣， 」帶來了催淚到您的眼睛和你把我們的兒子，並試圖解釋，他說，我是盪然無存。但你怎麼解釋？什麼是'去'是指一個孩子，他的年齡？然後我們躺在一起下的星星和當第一煙花到小康，你傾斜超過親吻我為第一次。你嘗到了像爆米花。我不能責怪你選擇一個新的丈夫。
當你終於回來，你年輕。這是最難的美雙方均是，我覺得。我們沒有共享相同的記憶了。您舉行的我並告訴我，這將是好吧，你已很難改變，但我認為我們都知道，現在，這是不正確的，在所有。時間改變了人們。這是它如何工作。
今天，我下降到地下室和盯著機器。我還記得那天你打開它。您的立場，在前面的一大群記者，與我們的兒子和您的新丈夫在貴方和您讓您的講話，有關暴政的時間和死亡的勝利科學和有關設置我們的自由。但內，您將思想， 「我想他已在這里看到這樣的」 。我知道這是因為，之前，我們見過面，你給我看你的日記，你寫的這一天。你怎麼可以不？這是最重要的日子，你的生活。你救了我們從敵人結束了戰爭。你問我，以阻止它。有什麼我可以做的。未來，只是作為真正的作為過去。有沒有以前或以後了。因為你，有沒有被。
我們並不意味著生活是這樣。
Ⅶ 有沒有自己寫的短篇英語科幻小說不要翻譯別人的！懸賞啊！
Science fiction story
AD 3,000
A group of scientists(including me) went to the bottom of the sea,some aliens are living there,they may cause a world war because they can take control of water.This time,we want to talk with them.
With the help of the sea-spaceship,we got the destination easily.To my surprise,this is a wonderful undersea world,beautiful fishes,and green coral reef which can make people feel great.
We didn't forget why we came here,but we saw no alien.Suddenly a huge screen was presented before us.It was playing a tsunami around India,and some wars around the world.Yes,this is our true life,I realized something,and turned around,a alien was looking us.Then,it began to say,"Human beings,you've made a lot trouble to the earth,e.g. The wars,the pollution,the experiment,etc.Now,we use the water to give you a tsunami,this is only a lesson for you.If you do this continuously,you will be punished!"
We were back to the ground,everything seemed peaceful,we knew what we should do.
The gone with the fire
the beginning
『don『t touch my salad!black-spirit!『John said with a loud voice.
『If you call me black-spirit again，white-monkey!I promise....『
『promise what?killing me?attention that we are thousands kilometres from the earth!『john said，and taking the salad to his side.Then continue his speech，『You know there are only two human in this space-ship-----you and me.So you『d better not do some foolish things.『Then john turn his eyesight to his bread，which covered a lot of salad again.
Though he is very angry，bob could do nothing but sustain.He really doesn『t understand why john hit him only because his skin ，which is black.Bob continue eating his lunch ，chinese rice，too.
『This is the centre of the space-technology on ground，received?Maya?『The voice came from the radio.
『This is maya space-ship，recieved，centre!『John answerd quickly.
『Is there all right?『centre asked.
Ⅷ 求一些中短篇英文原版科幻奇幻小說
我有《趁生命氣息逗留》
和拉瑪系列之二《拉瑪2號》英文原版的要不要？中篇！！
已發，求採納！！
Ⅸ 世界上最短的英文科幻小說
就25漢字 自己翻譯下吧
25字科幻小說
美國近代著名科幻小說家弗里蒂克·布朗曾寫過一篇就目前來說，堪為世界上最短的科幻小說。把它譯成現代漢語恰好是25個字，僅僅只有一句話：
地球上最後一個人獨自坐在房間里，這時，忽然響起了敲門聲……
盡管只有一句話，但它同樣具備了小說的特點。就小說的三要素而言，有人物（一個人）、有情節（一個人獨坐，聽到敲門聲）、有環境（僅有一人的地球上的某房間里）。科幻，重在科學幻想，其最為顯著的特徵就是：擅長誇張、製造懸念，給讀者設置自由而廣闊的聯想、想像等思維空間。這25個字促使讀者追究、探求的問題太多了——
地球上怎麼會只剩下一個人？其他人都到哪裡去了？是去往別的星球還是都死了？如果死了是因為什麼而死的？既然地球上僅剩一個人，那麼敲門的又是誰呢？是人類，是外星人，還是其它高智能的動物？這最後一個人是否去開門？開門後將看到什麼？如果是外星人，他們能夠通過語言來溝通彼此的情感嗎？……最後故事又將會怎樣發展？……總之，將會使每個讀者都產生多維而豐富的聯想和想像，有一百個讀者，就會有一百個關於「地球上最後一個人」的故事。
Ⅹ 世界上最短的科幻小說的英文版
美國近代著名科幻小說家弗里蒂克·布朗曾寫過一篇世界上最短的科幻小說。僅僅只有一句話:"地球上最後一個人獨自坐在房間里,這時,忽然響起了敲門聲……"