Ironically, with northern hemisphere nights at their shortest and the sun blazing down, the best of the current crop of science fiction books sit firmly at the darker end of the genre’s spectrum. And things don’t get much darker than the depths of the north Atlantic, where most of the action in Benedict Anning’s impressive debut effort, Atomic Coffin (Bantam £20/Saga Press $18), takes place.
颇具讽刺意味的是，正值北半球白昼最长、烈日当空之时，当下这一批最出色的科幻小说，却无一不站在这一类型光谱中最阴暗的一端。而要说阴暗，恐怕很难比得上北大西洋的深处——本尼迪克特•安宁(Benedict Anning)令人印象深刻的处女作《原子棺材》（Bantam出版社，20英镑／Saga Press出版社，18美元）的大部分情节就在那里展开。
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