赏析美国以外国家的科幻小说,首先要阅读美国本土的作品。美国科幻小说是所有非英语奇幻文学作品的基础,因为正如多数科幻小说读者所熟悉的,科幻小说于1926年起源于纽约。这并非由于此前没有作家写科幻小说或这类小说得不到读者的青睐,而是当时科幻小说并未自成一体。众所周知,在19世纪上半叶,霍夫曼和爱伦·坡的作品中已经出现机器人,时空穿梭(如爱伦·坡的《未来之事》)和一些依靠科技来实现的奇异事件。更早的时候,玛丽·雪莱也 Appreciation of science fiction outside the United States, we must first read the works of the United States. American science fiction is the foundation of all non-English fantasy literature because, as most readers of science fiction are familiar with, science fiction originated in New York in 1926. This is not due to the fact that no writers have ever written science fiction or no such readers have been popular with readers. Instead, science fiction is not self-contained. It is a well-known fact that in the first half of the nineteenth century, robots, time-space shuttles (such as “the future of Allan Poe”) and some bizarre events that rely on science and technology have emerged in the works of Huffman and Allan Poe. Earlier, Mary Shelley also