The Gift
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Summary
Then one day, the Feed suddenly collapses and all information is wiped. Because people had long been used to living through the Feed, much survival knowledge and many skills have been forgotten, and the world falls into chaos akin to the apocalypse.
As Tom and Kate struggle to survive amid the chaos, something worse happens: more and more people are hijacked through the Feed by an unknown force and become completely different people...
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy premise-driven science fiction
- People interested in issues of shared consciousness and the information society
- Readers who prefer apocalyptic survival and trust-crisis themes
- Readers new to science fiction looking for a fast-paced, highly readable book
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer warm, healing, low-conflict content
- Readers who are uncomfortable with apocalyptic chaos and hijacking plots
- Readers expecting hardcore technical details or rigorous scientific extrapolation
Reading tips
- Read the first few chapters to understand how the Feed works before entering the post-collapse plot.
- Pay attention to the clues about "being hijacked and becoming a different person" while reading; this helps in understanding the later suspense.
- Think as you read: if the convenient system you were used to suddenly disappeared, how would you cope?
- After finishing, look back at the opening description of the Feed to appreciate the foreshadowing the author planted.
About the publisher
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. is a publisher known for its literature and history titles, with 2,065 books in the collection. Its publishing covers foreign literature, contemporary Chinese prose and essays, history, folk literature, and cultural books. Its list ranges from Sima Qian's complete edition of the Records of the Grand Historian to foreign classics such as The Book of Disquiet, All Quiet on the Western Front, Snow Country, The Stranger, and Jean-Christophe, as well as modern Chinese works including Teahouse and Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk. Its authors and translators include Yasunari Kawabata, Fernando Pessoa, Erich Maria Remarque, Jin Xinyi, Zhou Miao, and Chen Chao. Public information is limited, but its catalogue reflects a balance between Chinese and foreign literary classics and historical and cultural works.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 湛庐·现实科幻系列 把科幻作为思考方法 发现改变现实的力量
- 中文版序
- 01 凯特 你会牺牲什么
- 02 汤姆 存储设施
- 03 凯特 燃烧
- 04 汤姆 废墟中的野兽
- 05 凯特 原谅和忘却
- 致谢
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About the author
Nick Clark Windo is a British novelist, and publicly available information about his life is currently limited. He is known for the science fiction novel The Feed, which is also the only work by him included in our collection. In terms of genre, Windo belongs to the field of science fiction writing, and his work focuses on the relationship between technology and human life. Set against a background of information networks and human consciousness, The Feed explores how people face questions of memory, communication, and self-identity in a society highly dependent on technology, showing the dystopian flavor common in contemporary science fiction. As more of the author's works have yet to be translated into Chinese, his Chinese readership is still taking shape. Overall, Windo's writing is notable for its conceptual imagination, using a science fiction framework to examine modern technological life, and his work offers Chinese readers a new sample for understanding contemporary British science fiction.
Zhang Yi is an author about whom limited public information is available. Four works are currently confirmed under this name, spanning the common categories of industrial technology, popular science, and science fiction. Representative works include Sync: How Order Arises from Chaos, How to Think About Thinking Machines (part of the Great Minds in Dialogue series on big questions), as well as Feedback and A Quick Read of Chinese Geography. These titles suggest that Zhang Yi's writing interests range across scientific ideas and geographical knowledge, touching on themes such as the emergence of order in complex systems, which carry both popular-science and speculative dimensions, as well as frontier topics like artificial intelligence and thinking. The works also include science fiction and accessible geographical writing. Because information such as dates of birth and death, nationality, and educational background cannot be verified, this introduction is based solely on the works in the catalog and makes no conjectures about the author's life.
