Sergeant Chip and Other Novellas
軍用に訓練され、通信チップを埋め込まれた犬チップの視点で戦争を描くSF中編。忠誠心と兵器化された身体の問題を、動物の語りによって痛切に浮かび上がらせる。
作品情報
兵士にされた犬のまなざしが、戦争の敵とは何かを問い直す。
初出は雑誌だが、のちに『Sergeant Chip and Other Novellas』に収録された。ヒューゴー賞候補にもなった中編で、シオドア・スタージョン記念賞を受賞した。
レビュー要約
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戦場を人間ではない語り手から見る発想と、忠誠心の扱いが印象に残ると受け止められている。感傷を抑えた語りが、兵器として使われる存在の悲しさを強めている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Subterranean Pr
- 発売日
- 2014-05-31
- ページ数
- 231ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.88 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781596066380
- ISBN-10
- 1596066385
- 価格
- 26299 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Fantasy
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A New Denton Collection, A Cause for Celebration
Bradley Denton is a writer whose work I've followed almost from his first national publication (I played a small role in exploratory talks several years ago when a Hollywood friend sought to develop Denton's fine novel LUNATICS for motion pictures). Sixteen years after Denton's fine, highly-recommended story collection ONE DAY CLOSER TO DEATH AND OTHER STORIES, he is back with three winners in SERGEANT CHIP AND OTHER NOVELLAS. I read the title story in its original magazine publication and re-read it in this collection in the autumn of 2014, less than a month ofter my own dog passed away. It remains a fresh, strong piece of writing, and here it is teamed with two other winners, "The Adakian Eagle," featuring a fictionalized Dashiell Hammett during his World War II soldier years, when he was stationed in Alaska (what? You didn't know Hammett served in Alaska? Read on, for Denton has done his research. Read on ...), and "Blackburn and the Blade," a return to Denton's greatest creation, the serial killer who is the main character of the haunting novel BLACKBURN. Three stories. Three winners. One writer who always delivers. That formula makes SERGEANT CHIP AND OTHE RNOVELLAS well worth the buying, well worth the reading.