おーいでてこーい

by Shinichi Hoshi, 星新一

星新一のショートショート傑作集!!
あっという間に読めるけど、ずーっと心にのこるストーリー。「読書なんかきらいだ!」というあなたにも、読書好きのあなたにもぜったいおススメです!!

あなたはショートショートって知っていますか?すごく短くて、ラストには奇想天外などんでん返しのある小説のことです。星新一は、そのショートショートの天才です。生涯に1000編以上も書いた、その作品は、どれもこれもおもしろいのですが、中から14作品を選りすぐりました。すぐ読めて、ながく楽しめる星新一の世界にどうぞハマってください!

264 pages, Paperback

About the author

Shinichi Hoshi (Japanese: 星新一) is recognized as one of Japan's most influential science fiction writers of all time, He published more than 1,000 of his signature "short-short" stories. Some call his crisp, no-frills prose the "Haiku of Science Fiction."

Reviews

[Barack Liu · Rating 5 out of 5]

427-Hey Come on Out-Shinichi Hoshi-Fiction Novel-1958

Barack
2022/07/16

Hey, Come on Out, was first published in 1958. It is a science fiction novel. The article imagines that a bottomless pit suddenly appeared on the earth. It can accommodate all the garbage made by human beings, so that human production and life have no worries, so the sky in the city is getting better and better, and people can feel at ease. enjoy the benefits of the bottomless pit. However, the good times didn't last long, as the small stones thrown in earlier fell, and what was originally thrown will be poured back into the earth.

Shinichi Hoshi, Hoshi Shinichi, whose real name is Hoshi Kinichi, was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1926. Died in 1997. Studied at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo, University of Tokyo. His father is Star One, the founder of Star Pharmaceutical University and Star Pharmaceutical, and Mori Ogai is his uncle (grandmother's brother). Together with Komatsu Sakyo and Tsutsui Yasutaka, he is also known as the "Three Family" in Japan.

Hoshi Shinichi published his first work "Fox の た め い き" in a magazine (doujinshi) organized by amateurs in 1949. His father died suddenly in 1951, and he was forced to drop out of graduate school to take over his father's pharmaceutical company. When the operating conditions deteriorated at that time, it was finally out of control. After that, he was always busy with the business of changing the company's hands. After leaving the company, he worked at home until he became a professional writer. With a monthly income of 100,000 yen as a very diligent director of Star Pharmaceutical University, life is safe. In 1963, he joined the Japanese Science Fiction Writers Club hosted by Masami Fukushima. He used to chat with other sci-fi writers at Chinese restaurants in Shinjuku to chat about sci-fi materials and put forward many bizarre ideas, which aroused strong reactions. After the mid-1960s, it gradually established its status as a master in Japanese science fiction.

Table of Contents
1. Hello - come out
2. The Thief Company
3. The long life
4. Communication of Love
5. The angel's assessment
6. Key
7. TV Show
8. Trailblazers
9. Goblin Rationing Company
10. The art of leisure

It is not only a tome of millions of words that can reflect the charm of literature. A thousand-word essay can also tell a compelling story. The first time I saw "Hello, Come Out" was probably in a middle school textbook. Now, more than ten years later, I still remember it vividly. The human imagination is indeed a magical thing that can create a fascinating world. On the other hand, it is easy to be suppressed in daily life. While we talk about maintaining the human imagination, we have been stifling the natural imagination since childhood. How do achieve balance?

"Artificial Beauty" is also a famous novel. In fact, today we have been able to create machines that look quite similar to humans, and we can also create software that communicates with people relatively smoothly. Combining the two, it is really possible to create companion robots. There are similar commercial products on the market now, but they are not so popular after all. Maybe 10 or 20 years later, it can really be commercialized on a large scale? Courtship is too troublesome in real life, perhaps many people will choose to turn to robots for psychological and physical comfort?

The company established by the thief has strict management, clear rules and regulations, and strict cooperation. Probably the same in real life. Society has a light side and a dark side. The light side can form an organization, and the dark side must form an organization accordingly. When a gang develops to a certain extent, it forms an organization and even an independent kingdom. Literary works must contain fictional elements, which are nothing more than different proportions of fiction. The setting of the worldview can be fictitious, but the words and deeds of the characters should be understandable to most people. Readers see themselves in literary works or see people they are familiar with, which is the charm of literature.

The development of technology has made people's life expectancy longer and longer. Those who benefit the most are probably those in high positions. People in high positions live longer and longer, which will inevitably lead to them occupying positions and delaying abdication, resulting in more intense competition for those below. When the competition is more intense, on the one hand, some people will feel hopeless and choose to lie down; on the other hand, some people will have radical behaviors. On the contrary, when a society is booming, it is often for some reason that a large number of existing and mature powers leave their posts actively or passively to make room for young people. This cyclical law repeats itself over and over again.

Angels also compete with each other for souls. With competition, there will be motivation; with competition, there will be no slack. Angels have angel KPIs, mortals have mortal KPIs. A god with humanity may just be someone who has more power in his hands. If there is divinity, it is probably like the laws of nature, right?

We pursue something all our lives. It could be a key, a door, a dream, an obsession. We look for it our whole life, and our personal emotions are bound up with it. We may or may not have achieved our goals until the end of our lives. Did the results still matter to us then? Maybe at that time, whether it is realized or not, memories are the things we cherish the most?

Because most of Xing Xinyi's works are micro-fiction, the length is very short, so it is more like an idea triggered by a brain hole. Everyone has more or less likely to have a flash of inspiration. Ordinary people's inspiration probably disappears in a flash. And how can the inspiration be presented in words, pictures, or other art forms, and let the readers feel as much as possible the interest and their own intentions, which is probably the difference between artists and ordinary people?

[F Gato · Rating 3 out of 5]

Witty, short but not very touching. Polar opposite to Dostoyevsky.

[Hao]

他摇了摇头，抬头望向天空，正看到一群候鸟飞过。可是，那队形竟然是塔纳糖果公司的商标。

[Kiki · Rating 5 out of 5]

非常的软科幻，大部分的故事新颖有趣，即使是放到现代有些点子也非常亮眼，我很喜欢。 前言之一是一篇对星新一的评论，提到作者的创作过程和坚持：1001篇作品中没有一篇是相同的创意，这实在令人佩服。另外还提到他的作品“最明显的特征则是几乎没有任何具体的人名、地名之类的专有名词 … 甚至连“100万元”这类钱款的具体数目，都会用“巨款”或者“只够吃两回豪华大餐的钱”来代替，尽力避免地域、时代、环境等方面的影响。” — 这样的写法的确让故事超越了时代地域，我作为读者也就更能专注于故事本身了，不得不说作者思想慎密、对自己的创作要求也高，难怪能产出这么好的作品。

顺便一提最喜欢的故事是《午后的恐龙》！