タイムスケープ〈上〉 (ハヤカワ文庫SF) [文庫]

1998年、世界は破滅に向かって突き進んでいた。慢性的な異常気象、食糧難、エネルギー危機…。北アフリカでは旱魃で住民がつぎつぎに餓死していく。そして南アメリカ沖で発生した赤潮は、地球的規模での大災厄の前ぶれだった。だが、すべては1960年代以降に使われはじめた農薬などの化学物質による環境汚染が原因なのだ。過去を変えぬかぎり、世界は救われない。―そこでケンブリッジの物理学者ジョン・レンフリューは、光よりも速い粒子タキオンを使って過去へ通信を送ろうと考えたが!タイム・パラドックスに挑む科学者を鮮やかに描く、ネビュラ賞受賞の傑作ハードSF。

Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It's 1962, and a physicist in California struggles with his new life on the West Coast, office politics, and the irregularities of data that plague his experiments. The story's perspective toggles between time lines, physicists, and their communities. Timescape presents the subculture and world of scientists in microcosm: the lab, the loves, the grappling for grants, the pressures from university and government, the rewards and trials of relationships with spouses, the pressures of the scientific race, and the thrill of discovery.

Timescape merits the tag "hard science fiction"; it tells the story of scientists, and readers can't help but learn something about tachyons and physics while reading it. Yet much of the story is about humanity: the men John Renfrew and Gordon Bernstein and their relationships--between husband and wife, lover and lover, English working class and upper class, professor and student, and academician and colleagues.

Winner of the Nebula Award in 1980 and the John W. Clark Award in 1981, Timescape offers readers a great yarn, in terms of both humanity and science.
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1998. Earth is falling apart, on the brink of ecological disaster. But in England a tachyon scientist is attempting to contact the past, to somehow warn them of the misery and death their actions and experiments have visited upon a ravaged planet.

1962. JFK is still president, rock 'n' roll is king, and the Vietnam War hardly merits front-page news. A young assistant researcher at a California university, Gordon Bernstein, notices strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment. Against all odds, facing ridicule and opposition, Bernstein begins to uncover the incredible truth... a truth that will change his life and alter history... the truth behind time itself.
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SALES POINTS * #27 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. * Winner of the Nebula and John W. Campbell Awards. * 'Science fiction at its very best' Anthony Burgess * ' ... a rarity: a scientist who writes with verve and insight, not only about black holes and cosmic strings, but about human desires and fears' New York Times * 'In the rapidly shrinking world of hard SF, Benford is justa bout the best now at work' The Washington Post --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。