| 词条 | A Dark Traveling |
| 释义 |
| name = A Dark Traveling | title_orig = | translator = | image = Cover art dark traveling.jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover) | author = Roger Zelazny | illustrator = Lebbus Woods | cover_artist = Lebbus Woods | country = United States | language = English | series = Millennium | genre = Science fantasy | publisher = Walker and Company | release_date = 1987 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = 143 | isbn = 0-8027-6686-2 | dewey= FIC | congress= PZ7.Z3963 Dar 1987 | oclc= 248644304 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}A Dark Traveling is a science fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny.[1] The story uses teleportation as both fantasy and science fiction elements. It is the only novel he wrote for young adults[2] and one of three books without a heroic protagonist.[3] Plot IntroductionWhen an injured scientist disappears into a parallel world that is the battlefield between the forces of light and dark, his children set out to find him. SettingOur Earth is but one of many parallel Earths split off from each other by world-changing historical events. Over many generations the Wiley family guards and develops our Earth’s transcomp, a portal to the other worlds. Parallel Earths are called bands, a term taken from the bandwidth or frequency that a transcomp tunes to in order to open a portal to each world. There are four categories of bands:
Lightbands and darkbands prosecute wars against each other on some bands. Characters
Plot summaryBecky Wiley has a vision of someone threatening her father, Tom Wiley, in their transcomp room. She runs to the control room and finds blood on the floor. The transmission part of the transcomp is destroyed, but the receiving mechanism still works. She waits for her brother, James, and their exchange-student Barry to return home. They theorize that Tom is attacked by an intruder. After a brief fight in which one of them is wounded, Tom escapes through the transcomp. The intruder damages the sending capability of the transcomp and leaves. The children think Tom is probably wounded, so they decide to find and help him. The controls on the transcomp suggest two possible bands for Tom’s escape. As a sorceress Becky has the ability to transport the boys to the bands in question without a transcomp. She sends them to the wrong worlds, however. Barry is sent to a deadband where he verifies that Tom is not there. James arrives at night in a world with a full moon. He has his first transformation into a werewolf. His uncle George, a werewolf and shapeshifter, is the resident transcomp operator. He finds and cares for James. He expects James because Barry arrives earlier from the deadband. Tom escapes to a darkband, a former lightband which is only partly controlled by the darkbanders. Forces from the lightbands including Tom and Agatha, James’ mother, are assisting a rebellion against the darkbanders. It is closely fought so darkbanders are attacking lightbander transcomps to stop armed lightbanders from entering the war. Becky arrives later through her own magical means of travel to bands. Through sorceress to sorceress communication with Agatha, Becky discovers that the darkbanders are jamming the lightbanders’ transcomp on the battlefield with a special transmitter so that lightbander reinforcements can not pour in from their transcomps. Agatha is involved in a psychic battle with a darkbander sorcerer named Crow. The children decide to go with Becky to the darkbander’s camp and destroy the transmitter. They arrive in a wood at the edge of the camp. They identify a tent that they think houses the jamming transmitter. Through a spell Becky is able to make them invisible so that the darklanders in the camp can not see them. They reach the tent and although Becky senses danger, they enter. Crow, the blackbander sorcerer, confronts them in the tent. He disables Barry and focuses his attention on Becky, who engages him in psychic combat. Although the sorcerer is able to slow him down, James manages to push the transmitter off its table and break it. Uncle George follows the children and, in werewolf form, bounds into the tent and kills the sorcerer. Without the jamming of their transcomp, the lightbanders bring in their reinforcements and eke out a victory. However, the margin of victory to so minute and of such world-changing significance a new darkbander world is created in which the darkbanders prevail. The children find Tom and Agatha. Tom is wounded superficially. They return to their Earth realizing that the darkbanders will have to be fought again and again. Literary discussionProse PoetryZelazny has been lauded as a prose poet, a writer who uses poetic elements such as form, image, structure, alliteration, internal rhyme and metaphor.[4][5][6] James’ transformation into a werewolf for the first time is a good example of this style:
ProtagonistsTheodore Krulik, one of Zelazny’s literary biographers, has indicated that Zelazny’s protagonists are all cast from a certain mold: More than most writers, Zelazny persists in reworking a persona composed of a single literary vision. This vision is the unraveling of a complex personality with special abilities, intelligent, cultured, experienced in many areas, but who is fallible, needing emotional [maturity, and who candidly reflects upon the losses in his life. This complex persona cuts across all of Zelazny’s writings. . . .[8] Jane Lindskold takes a different view and gives James Wiley as an example of an ordinary person “who is forced into action by extraordinary circumstances.”[9] It is difficult to call a werewolf ordinary, but he does not fit the heroic protagonist, and his boyish nature is emphasized throughout the story. Like any boy with siblings, James struggles with the idea that his younger sister and Barry share secrets with adults, deeming him too immature to share these secrets. A hero would not have such limitations, as James does: “It seems that I am destined always to be surrounded by secrets—and not to be in on most of them.”[10] He later complains indignantly to Becky: ”Everybody knows stuff I don’t!”. . .”Even you! And you’re a lot younger! How come Dad told you all this stuff when he didn’t tell me?”[11] Despite being a werewolf, James is in other respects a 14-year-old boy. Publication history
References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/searchwwe.asp?st=Roger+Zelazny |title=Roger Zelazny |publisher=Worlds without End |accessdate=16 October 2011 }} 2. ^Lindskold 1993, p 118 3. ^Lindskold 1993, p 113 4. ^Lindskold 1993, pp 118–119 5. ^Sturgeon 1967, p 5 6. ^Cowper March 1977, p 143 7. ^Zelazny 1987, p 73 8. ^Krulik 1986, pp 23–24 9. ^Lindskold 1993, p 113 10. ^Zelazny 1987, p 91 11. ^Zelazny 1987, p 98 Bibliography
External links
3 : 1987 novels|1987 science fiction novels|Novels by Roger Zelazny |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。