论刘宇昆小说《人之涛》:科幻与神话的旨归交织

On Ken Liu’s Science Fiction The Waves:The Integration of Main Themes of Science Fiction and Myth

科幻小说沟通了过去与未来,现实与虚拟,与神话故事有着更深层次的主题呼应。科幻小说作家刘宇昆,拥有中美两种文化背景,擅长在他的科幻作品中把东方故事与西方现实技术相结合。在《人之涛》中,他把世界各族不同的神话故事进行交织,又与科幻融合,书写了一个全新的宇宙神话,探索了人类生命与命运的意义价值,小说祛除神话表面的伪装,接受技术潮流的变迁,为科幻文学探寻更丰富的可能性。

Science fiction bridges the past and the future,the real and the virtual,and has deeper thematic echoes with mythology.The science fiction writer Ken Liu,who has a background in both Chinese and American cultures and specializes in combining Eastern stories with western reality and technology in his science fiction works.In The Waves,he interweaves the different mythologies of the world's races and fuses them with science fiction to write a new cosmic mythology.He explores the value of the meaning of human life and clesting,and the novel removes the camouflage of mythic surfaces and embraces the shifting tides of techology to explore richer possibilities for science fiction litarature.