深海球体书：发光海洋深度的影响 The Bathysphere Book : Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 384 pages

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Imprint:ONE

ISBN:9781911590873

Published:7 Nov 2024

Dimensions:198 x 129 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“催眠……引发了对探索和奇迹、对自然和人类的疑问”《纽约时报书评》

“精致而令人震惊……就像任何对深海的探索一样”《辉煌深渊》的作者海伦·斯凯尔斯

“[一本]丰富而奇怪的书”《城市与城市》的作者 China Miéville

1930 年 6 月 11 日。在大西洋诺森奇岛附近的一艘船上，一个奇怪的钢球被放入 3000 英尺深的海中。知名的动物学家威廉·比比蜷缩在里面，透过三英寸厚的石英窗凝视着。他激动不已，看着奇异的、从未见过的生物从漆黑的黑暗中飞出，被生物发光的爆发照亮。他是第1个目睹这个外星世界的人。

比比的潜水故事发生在一个不断变革、充满矛盾的美国，这里是开创性科学家、古怪冒险家和优生学亿万富翁的家园。然而，在海洋的巨大压力下，科学期望破灭；色谱分裂成新的维度；奇异的生物在没有人预料到的地方繁衍生息。

《深海球体》一书融合了研究、故事叙述和诗意实验，穿越错综复杂的科学发现历史，进入深不可测的未知世界的无底魔力。

'Hypnotic... raises questions of exploration and wonder, of nature and humanity' New York Times Book Review

'Exquisite and shocking... just as any exploration of the deep should be' Helen Scales, author of The Brilliant Abyss

'[A] rich, strange book' China Miéville, author of The City & the City

11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000 feet into the sea. Crumpled up inside, gazing through three-inch thick quartz windows, sits the famed zoologist William Beebe. With uncontrollable excitement, he watches as bizarre, never-before-seen creatures flit out of the inky blackness, illuminated by explosions of bioluminescence. He is the first person to witness this alien world.

Beebe's dives take place against the backdrop of a transforming and paradoxical America, home to ground-breaking scientists, eccentric adventurers, and eugenicist billionaires. Yet under the ocean's crushing pressure, scientific expectations disintegrate; the colour spectrum shatters into new dimensions; outlandish organisms thrive where no one expected them.

The Bathysphere Book blends research, storytelling, and poetic experiments, traveling through entangled histories of scientific discovery into the bottomless magic of the deep unknown.

作者简介

布拉德·福克斯 (Brad Fox) 是一位作家、记者、翻译，曾是救济承包商，现居纽约。他的作品曾刊登在《纽约客》、《巴黎评论日报》和《格尔尼卡》等出版物上。他的小说《保持无名》入围 Big Other Fiction 奖，并被《巴黎评论》评为员工推荐作品。福克斯是一名持证潜水员，曾在布达佩斯市中心进行洞穴潜水，在百慕大进行沉船潜水，并在秘鲁海岸附近的一个废弃石油平台上潜水。

Brad Fox is a writer, journalist, translator and former relief contractor living in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily and Guernica, among other publications. His novel To Remain Nameless was a finalist for the Big Other Fiction award and a staff pick at The Paris Review. Fox is a certified scuba diver and has been cave diving in central Budapest, wreck diving in Bermuda, and dived a decommissioned oil platform off the coast of Peru.