"“... when I first turned him against me there was as yet no question of Earth’s doom, but I took care to make it worse when that question arose. But, as you imply, nothing could have turned him against the Pump.” “But you don’t seem to despise yourself now.”"
"后来又有一次……他把自己身体的结构随便改了改,使身体尖端淡化消散,这样他就可以从文档中渗过。"
"At another time...he had idly formed a couple of projections and made the tips so thin, he could pass one through the other."
"“或者是个无限的连续体;α-1,而不是α-0。”"
"“Possibly the infinity of the continuum; aleph-one, rather than aleph-null.”"
作者简介
艾萨克•阿西莫夫 Isaac Asimov (1920 ~1992)
俄裔美籍作家,全知全能,被全世界读者誉为“神一样的人”。美国政府授予他“国家的资源和大自然的奇迹”这个独一无二的称号,以表彰他在“拓展人类想象力”上做出的杰出贡献。
阿西莫夫一生之中著作近500 本,涉及杜威图书分类法的每一个范畴,涵盖人类生活的每一个层面,上天下海、古往今来、从恐龙到亚原子到全宇宙无所不包,从通俗小说到罗马帝国史,从科普读物到远东千年历史,从圣经指南,到科学指南,到两性生活指南,每一部著作都朴实、严谨而又充满幽默风趣的格调。
1972年,阿西莫夫的长篇小说《神们自己》首次登上《银河科幻》杂志,并相继斩获代表了全球科幻界最高荣誉的星云奖、雨果奖和轨迹奖等多项大奖。多年来,这部作品被全球科幻迷奉为必读的阿西莫夫集大成之作,同时,也是阿西莫夫本人最偏爱的作品。