《安德游戏》――英雄荣耀和良知.docVIP

《安德游戏》――英雄荣耀和良知 　　奥森Orson Scott Card， 1951～），美国作家、评论家、公众演说家和政治家。卡德以多种风格和题材进行写作，最初以其科幻小说而闻名。他最著名的代表作为小说《安德的游戏》（Ender’s Game）及其续集《死者代言人》（Speaker for the Dead），双双获得了雨果奖和星云奖，也让卡德成为唯一一位连续两年包揽两项美国科幻小说最高奖的作家。 《安德的游戏》发表于1985年，小说讲述了极具军事指挥天赋的少年安德Ender Wiggin）历经重重磨练和心灵考验，最终指挥太空舰队打败了入侵地球的外星生物虫族的故事。 下文选自本书第14章，讲述安德在游戏中打败并消灭了虫族，结果却发现游戏并非游戏，而是真实的战斗。 Ender took off his headphones， and only then realized that there was just as much noise in the room with him. Men in uniform were hugging each other， laughing， shouting； others were weeping. Colonel Graff came to Ender. Tears streamed down his face， but he was smiling. “Thank you， thank you Ender. Thank God for you， Ender.” He tried to make sense of this. Had he passed the test after all？ It was his victory， not theirs； why did they act as if he had won with honor？ Mazer Rackham came straight to Ender and held out his hand. “You made the hard choice， boy. All or nothing. End them or end us. But heaven knows there was no other way you could have done it. Congratulations. You beat them， and it’s all over.” All over. Beat them. Ender didn’t understand. “I beat you.” Mazer laughed. “Ender， you never played me. You never played a game since I became your enemy.” Ender didn’t get the joke. He had played a great many games， at a terrible cost to himself. Mazer then grew serious and said， “Ender， for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games， the battles were real， and the only enemy you fought was the buggers. You won every battle， and today you finally fought them at their home world， where the queen was， all the queens from all their colonies， they all were there and you destroyed them completely. They’ll never attack us again. You did it. You.” Real. Not a game. Ender’s mind was too tired to cope with it all. They weren’t just points of light in the air； they were real ships that he had fought with and real ships he had destroyed. And