| 词条 | Bellwether (novel) |
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| name = Bellwether | title_orig = | translator = | image = ConnieWillis Bellwether.jpg | caption = Cover of first edition (paperback) | author = Connie Willis | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Novel | publisher = Bantam Books | release_date = 1996 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Paperback) | pages = 247 pp | isbn = 0-553-37562-8 | dewey= 813/.54 20 | congress= PS3573.I45652 B45 1996 | oclc= 33078699 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Bellwether, is a 1996 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1997.[1] Plot introductionThe main character, Dr. Sandra Foster, studies fads in Boulder, Colorado. Her employer, Hi-Tek, wants to know how to predict fads, in order to take advantage of this knowledge and thus to possibly create one. While Dr. Foster is extensively researching and analysing fads, Hi-Tek itself is swept by management fads. In addition, the Management wants one of its employees to win the mysterious Niebnitz Research Grant (the fictitious award is very similar to the MacArthur Fellowship's Genius Grant{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}). Meanwhile, the employees struggle with chaos created by a self-centered administrative assistant. Willis uses humor to come to an unsettling conclusion. ResolutionThe scientists experiment with sheep, finding that their flocks are led by bellwethers, certain sheep which are "indistinguishable from the rest of the flock, only a little greedier, a little faster, a little hungrier." Analogously, fads are started by some persons among the crowd, who, even without realizing it, are a little ahead of the rest. Willis also creates a subtle reworking of Robert Browning's Pippa Passes. Browning's work, which is explicitly mentioned in Willis's, tells the story of a cheerful girl named Pippa who in passing by folks in a village influences everyone to the good. In Willis's novel, the administrative assistant Flip likewise influences everyone, though not in a charming manner. Flip and Pippa are both diminutive names for Phillipa. References1. ^{{cite web| url = https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_nebula_index.asp?emulate=&at=N&Page=2&PageLength=10 | title = The Nebula Award Listing: SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR BOOKS BY AWARD| publisher = WWEnd| accessdate=2013-01-15}} External links
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