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繼承者是誰？
殺掉查理──突如其來的殺人預告，震撼了在美國念書的日本學生達也，他告訴好友查理，但查理認為這只是惡作劇，直到警察康丁斯基趕來保護。原來不僅在美國，俄國、法國、日本都發生大學生殺人案，死因各異，有心臟麻痺、精神錯亂和意外喪生，但康丁斯基肯定由同一人所為，因為悲劇發生前，死者朋友都作了相同的夢：有人說，要殺死他們的好友……
面對從未失手的凶手，大家繃緊神經，獨處在研究室的查理卻遭電擊，幸未身亡，但難保下一次不會喪命。
驚疑未定的眾人，察覺這次犯罪手法與先前不同，違反預告時間；難道凶手藏身在他們中，得知達也將和警方聯手而提早行動？然而，大張旗鼓說要「測試他們」的目的是什麼？凶手策畫的「遊戲」究竟為何？潛入夢境的理由和手法又是什麼？
康丁斯基找來了人類學、犯罪學和科學領域的學者協助查案。
他們逐漸發現，這不是單純的跨國犯罪，甚至攸關「人類」種族存續的未來。
人類的下一步，就在凶手的「動機」中……
面對從未失手的凶手，大家繃緊神經，獨處在研究室的查理卻遭電擊，幸未身亡，但難保下一次不會喪命。
驚疑未定的眾人，察覺這次犯罪手法與先前不同，違反預告時間；難道凶手藏身在他們中，得知達也將和警方聯手而提早行動？然而，大張旗鼓說要「測試他們」的目的是什麼？凶手策畫的「遊戲」究竟為何？潛入夢境的理由和手法又是什麼？
康丁斯基找來了人類學、犯罪學和科學領域的學者協助查案。
他們逐漸發現，這不是單純的跨國犯罪，甚至攸關「人類」種族存續的未來。
人類的下一步，就在凶手的「動機」中……
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1968
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About the author
Sakyo Komatsu
56 books36 followersBorn Minoru "Sakyo" Komatsu in Osaka, he was a graduate of Kyoto University where he studied Italian literature. After graduating, he worked at various jobs, including as a magazine reporter and a writer for stand-up comedy acts.
Komatsu's writing career began in the 1960s. Reading Kōbō Abe and Italian classics made Komatsu feel modern literature and science fiction are the same.
In 1961, he entered a science-fiction writing competition: "Peace on Earth" was a story in which World War II does not end in 1945 and a young man prepares to defend Japan against the Allied invasion. Komatsu received an honourable mention and 5000 yen.
He won the same competition the following year with the story, "Memoirs of an Eccentric Time Traveller". His first novel, The Japanese Apache, was published two years later and sold 50,000 copies.
In the West he is best known for the novels Japan Sinks (1973) and Sayonara Jupiter (1982). Both were adapted to film, Tidal Wave (1973) and Bye Bye Jupiter (1984). The story "The Savage Mouth" was translated by Judith Merril and has been anthologized.
At the time of publication, his apocalyptic vision of a sunk Japan wiped out by shifts incurred through geographic stress worried a Japan still haunted by the atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was inspired to write it thinking of what would happen if the nationalistic Japanese lost their land, and ironically prefigured the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear plant disaster decades later on March 11, 2011 - the result of which he was interested in "to see how Japan would evolve" after the catastrophe.
Komatsu was involved in organizing the Japan World Exposition in Osaka Prefecture in 1970. In 1984, Komatsu served as a technical consultant for a live concert in Linz, Austria by Japanese electronic composer Isao Tomita. He won the 1985 Nihon SF Taisho Award. Komatsu was one of two Author Guests of Honor at Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention in 2007 in Yokohama, Japan. This was the first Worldcon to be held in Asia.
With Shin'ichi Hoshi and Yasutaka Tsutsui, Komatsu was considered one of the masters of Japanese science fiction.
Komatsu died shortly after the destruction that followed the themes of his first and hugely successful novel. In the issue of his quarterly magazine published on July 21, Komatsu said he hoped to see how his country would evolve after the catastrophe. "I had thought I wouldn't mind dying any day," he wrote. "But now I'm feeling like living a little bit longer and seeing how Japan will go on hereafter." He died five days after publication, aged 80.
Komatsu's writing career began in the 1960s. Reading Kōbō Abe and Italian classics made Komatsu feel modern literature and science fiction are the same.
In 1961, he entered a science-fiction writing competition: "Peace on Earth" was a story in which World War II does not end in 1945 and a young man prepares to defend Japan against the Allied invasion. Komatsu received an honourable mention and 5000 yen.
He won the same competition the following year with the story, "Memoirs of an Eccentric Time Traveller". His first novel, The Japanese Apache, was published two years later and sold 50,000 copies.
In the West he is best known for the novels Japan Sinks (1973) and Sayonara Jupiter (1982). Both were adapted to film, Tidal Wave (1973) and Bye Bye Jupiter (1984). The story "The Savage Mouth" was translated by Judith Merril and has been anthologized.
At the time of publication, his apocalyptic vision of a sunk Japan wiped out by shifts incurred through geographic stress worried a Japan still haunted by the atomic devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was inspired to write it thinking of what would happen if the nationalistic Japanese lost their land, and ironically prefigured the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear plant disaster decades later on March 11, 2011 - the result of which he was interested in "to see how Japan would evolve" after the catastrophe.
Komatsu was involved in organizing the Japan World Exposition in Osaka Prefecture in 1970. In 1984, Komatsu served as a technical consultant for a live concert in Linz, Austria by Japanese electronic composer Isao Tomita. He won the 1985 Nihon SF Taisho Award. Komatsu was one of two Author Guests of Honor at Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention in 2007 in Yokohama, Japan. This was the first Worldcon to be held in Asia.
With Shin'ichi Hoshi and Yasutaka Tsutsui, Komatsu was considered one of the masters of Japanese science fiction.
Komatsu died shortly after the destruction that followed the themes of his first and hugely successful novel. In the issue of his quarterly magazine published on July 21, Komatsu said he hoped to see how his country would evolve after the catastrophe. "I had thought I wouldn't mind dying any day," he wrote. "But now I'm feeling like living a little bit longer and seeing how Japan will go on hereafter." He died five days after publication, aged 80.
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August 7, 2019
foreseeing for the novelist
December 17, 2018
再怎麼超越時代終究還是性別歧視滿載
關於人造子宮與其使用率為1/3的這種預測，很在意作者是從何處得來的發想
(然後就看到日本不流行無痛分娩的討論)
覺得當女人真的好難，不肯忍痛就是沒有母愛
對故事中認為女性內建母性的這種想法感到憤怒，
另外登場角色女性不是床伴就是稍稍帶過的演奏者
（感謝天，作者為了符合那高級知識份子氛圍還給路人如她一個海洋學家的頭銜）
男女角色比例是9.9:0.1，啊不就好棒棒的未來
作者對很多角色都是用完即丟不會交代下場
前半看起來很重要的野孩子，後半馬上跟著曾經是床伴（但主角認為對方母性太強，跟自己漸行漸遠）的女子消失無蹤
還有看起來很厲害的賢者也是沒啥交代就默默神隱了
整體說來故事設計並不糟糕，想表達的東西也滿有趣
考慮到完成的年代(原著是1968年連載)，也許上面的評語會顯得過火
畢竟它的確呈現出一種預言效果
但不管是《妳一生的預言》（外星人）或是《繼承者是誰？》（超越智人的物種）都讓人對人類這種排外的物種感到無奈
想著的不是征服就是竊取科技
最後吐個跟性別無關的
如果對方真的如此高等生物，也統領所有科技，那又怎麼會沒法製作區區藥品？
關於人造子宮與其使用率為1/3的這種預測，很在意作者是從何處得來的發想
(然後就看到日本不流行無痛分娩的討論)
覺得當女人真的好難，不肯忍痛就是沒有母愛
對故事中認為女性內建母性的這種想法感到憤怒，
另外登場角色女性不是床伴就是稍稍帶過的演奏者
（感謝天，作者為了符合那高級知識份子氛圍還給路人如她一個海洋學家的頭銜）
男女角色比例是9.9:0.1，啊不就好棒棒的未來
作者對很多角色都是用完即丟不會交代下場
前半看起來很重要的野孩子，後半馬上跟著曾經是床伴（但主角認為對方母性太強，跟自己漸行漸遠）的女子消失無蹤
還有看起來很厲害的賢者也是沒啥交代就默默神隱了
整體說來故事設計並不糟糕，想表達的東西也滿有趣
考慮到完成的年代(原著是1968年連載)，也許上面的評語會顯得過火
畢竟它的確呈現出一種預言效果
但不管是《妳一生的預言》（外星人）或是《繼承者是誰？》（超越智人的物種）都讓人對人類這種排外的物種感到無奈
想著的不是征服就是竊取科技
最後吐個跟性別無關的
如果對方真的如此高等生物，也統領所有科技，那又怎麼會沒法製作區區藥品？
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