图书名称：The Clockwork Man 

出版单位：The MIT Press

作者：E. V. Odle,Annalee Newitz

出版时间：2022-5-3

语言：英文

ISBN ：9780262543439

图书规格：简装 1/16开本

仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

在有史以来第yi部关于机械人的小说中，一个来自遥远未来的多元宇宙的机械强化人访问了1920年代的英国。

在1920年代的英国，一个奇怪的生物撞上了一场乡村板球比赛。经过一些故障、生硬的沟通尝试后，这个生物显示他是一个来自未来数千年的多元宇宙的机器强化人。植入他头骨的装置发生了故障，使他在时间中翻滚到板球场的绿草地上。显然，在未来，在厌倦了的女人的要求下，所有的男人都将被嵌入的 "发条 "控制，用帽子和假发来伪装。出版于1923年的《发条人》——第yi部机械人小说——讲述了这位奇怪的时间旅行者的访问故事。

在与两对即将开始婚姻生活的乡村夫妇相处的过程中，发条人警告说，由于二十世纪的男人是如此的暴力、性别歧视和自私，在不远的将来，他们将被禁止进入物理现实。他们将居住在一个虚拟的世界里——也就是我们现在所说的奇点——在这个世界里，他们的每一个需求都得到了满足，但爱却不存在。发条人的故事会不会让他的新朋友重新考虑技术、性别角色、性和自由意志？

《发条人》在当时被卡雷尔·恰佩克1923年关于机器人起义的轰动性戏剧《R.U.R.》所掩盖，其实早就该被重新发现了。

In the first-ever novel about a cyborg, a machine-enhanced man from a multiverse of the far future visits 1920s England.

In 1920s England, a strange being crashes a village cricket game. After some glitchy, jerky attempts to communicate, this creature reveals that he is a machine-enhanced human from a multiverse thousands of years in the future. The mechanism implanted in his skull has malfunctioned, sending him tumbling through time onto the green grass of the cricket field. Apparently in the future, at the behest of fed-up women, all men will be controlled by an embedded "clockwork," camouflaged with hats and wigs. Published in 1923, The Clockwork Man--the first cyborg novel--tells the story of this odd time traveler's visit.

Spending time with two village couples about to embark upon married life, the Clockwork Man warns that because men of the twentieth century are so violent, sest, and selfish, in the not-too-distant future they will be banned from physical reality. They will inhabit instead a virtual world--what we'd now call the Singularity--in which their every need is met, but love is absent. Will the Clockwork Man's tale lead his new friends to reconsider technology, gender roles, sex, and free will?

Overshadowed in its own time by Karel Capek's sensational 1923 play R.U.R., about a robot uprising, The Clockwork Man is overdue for rediscovery.

作者简介

E.V. Odle (1890-1942)是伦敦布卢姆斯伯里附近的杂志编辑。

E. V. Odle (1890-1942) was a Bloomsbury-adjacent magazine editor in London.

安娜莉·纽维茨是《四座失落的城市》(2021)、小说《另一条时间线的未来》(2019)和《自主》(2017)以及小说《地球形成者》 的作者。作为一名科学记者，他们是《纽约时报》的特约评论员，并在《新科学家》上有专栏。他们也是雨果奖获奖播客《我们的观点是正确的》的共同主持人。此前，他们是io9的创始人，并担任Gizmodo的主编。

Annalee Newitz is the author of Four Lost Cities (2021), the novels The Future of Another Timeline (2019) andAutonomous (2017), and the novel The Terraformers (forthcoming). As a science journalist, they are a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and have a column in New Scientist. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.