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1962年、カリフォルニアは平和だった。抜けるような青空の下、道には椰子の木が立ち並び、ラジオからはビーチ・ボーイズの曲が流れる。海の向こうで激化するヴェトナム戦争も知らぬげに、波打ちぎわでは若者がサーフィンに興じている。だが、カリフォルニア大学の物理学者ゴードン・バーンスタインは、核磁気共鳴実験に混入する雑音に悩まされていた。もちろん、それがゴードンの人生を、さらには世界の運命までも一変させる鍵であるとは知るはずもなかった。…ついに雑音の謎を解明したゴードンを待つ驚くべき真実とは?科学者作家が迫真の筆致で描きだす傑作ハードSF。ネビュラ賞受賞。

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。