A Time of Changes pdf

罗伯特·西尔弗伯格自 1955 年以来一直是一名职业作家，以其科幻小说和奇幻故事而广为人知。 他多次获得雨果奖和星云奖，1999 年入选科幻名人堂，2004 年被美国科幻作家协会指定为特级大师。 他的书和故事已被翻译成四十种语言。 他最著名的书名包括《夜之翼》、《死在里面》、《骷髅之书》和三卷马吉普尔周期：瓦伦丁勋爵的城堡、马吉普尔编年史、瓦伦丁教皇。 他收集的短篇小说涵盖了近六十年的工作，已由 Subterranean Press 出版，共九卷。 他最近的一本书是 TALES OF MAJIPOOR（2013 年），这是一本新的故事集，故事背景是在瓦伦丁城堡中闻名的巨大世界。

A Time of Changes pdf 罗伯特·西尔弗伯格

In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique culture. One of the strangest is on Borthan, where the founding settlers established the Covenant, which teaches that the self is to be despised, and forbids anyone to reveal his innermost thoughts or feelings to another. On Borthan, the filthiest obscenities imaginable are the words "I" and "me." For the heinous crime of "self-baring," apostates have always paid with exile or death, but after his eyes are opened by a visitor from Earth, Kinnall Darival, prince of Salla, risks everything to teach his people the real meaning of being human..