科技

《超級預測的藝術與科學》Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
作者：Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

A scientific analysis of the ancient art of divination which shows that forecasting is a talent; luckily it can be learned. You need a healthy appetite for information, a willingness to revisit predictions in light of new data, and the ability to synthesise material from sources with very different outlooks on the world.
對古代占卜藝術的科學分析顯示預測是一種稟賦，我們有幸從中學習。你需要對信息有嗜好，愿意根據新的數據調整預測，有能力用世界上不同的觀點綜合材料。

《神經部落：自閉癥的遺產和神經多樣性的未來》Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
作者：Steve Silberman

The descriptions of how autistic children were treated in the 20th century is especially shocking.
自閉癥的孩子在二十世紀的遭遇，令人驚駭。

《重要問題：生活何以如是？》The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is?
作者：Nick Lane

A persuasive and demanding attempt, by a thought-provoking British scientist, a biochemist at University College London, to answer some of the most fundamental questions in biology. It posits a new theory of how life came to be.
一個生化學家回到了生物學中一些最基本的問題，答案令人信服、引人深思。作品指出了生命何來的新理論。

《人無需適用：人工智能時代的財富與工作指南》Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
作者：Jerry Kaplan

An intriguing, insightful and well-written look at how modern artificial intelligence, powering algorithms and robots, threatens jobs and may increase wealth inequalities, by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and AI expert.
現代的人工智能、強大的算法和機器人如何威脅了你的工作，并加大財富的不平等，一個硅谷企業家及人工智能專家的講述生動且深刻。

《在第四維要做什么？》Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
作者：Matt Parker

This is an unusual, in-depth but highly accessible popular-maths book by a member of the London Mathematical Society who also has a sideline in stand-up comedy.
倫敦數學學會的一本數學科普書，就像在說相聲。

《物理學七講》Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
作者：Carlo Rovelli

A startling and illustrative distillation of centuries of science by an Italian theoretical physicist.
意大利理論物理學家來梳理幾個世紀以來的科學史，豐富且生動。

《新荒野：入侵物種何以拯救自然》The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
作者：Fred Pearce

A carefully researched, analytical look at the effects that new species have on different environments into which they are introduced. The book debunks poor science and the cherry-picking of statistical examples to feed hysteria about keeping invasive species out and protecting an imaginary perfect past.
本書對新物種被引入不同環境后帶來的后果進行了細致分析。本書駁斥了科學和統計樣本選擇行為中的謬誤，后者認為要抵制入侵物種，保護想象中的完美過去。

《人體冒險》Adventures in Human Being
作者：Gavin Francis

A Scottish doctor takes a delightful journey closer to home, through the wondrous human body, from top to tail, inside to out.
蘇格蘭醫生讓你走進奇妙人體，從頭到腳，從里到外。

《時間螺旋：探秘海貝的生前身后》Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
作者：Helen Scales

A marine biologist-turned-science writer describes coming face-to-shell with a giant clam on the Great Barrier Reef, enjoying a bag of smoked oysters in Gambia and meeting a sea-silk seamstress in Italy. She makes an impassioned and convincing argument that, contrary to expectations, molluscs have much to teach us.
海洋生物學家、科普作家描寫大堡礁的貝殼，嘗一包岡比亞烤生蠔，采訪意大利的海絲女裁縫。她不動聲色卻令人信服的表明，與我們想象的不同，軟體動物能教會我們很多東西。

《怎么討論可視化游戲？》How to Talk about Videogames
作者：Ian Bogost

Some say video games are the great sport of the 21st century, the summit of art and entertainment. Others call them mindless. Meditative essays on the meaning of gaming, by a game designer and professor of interactive computing.
有人說可視化游戲是21世紀最偉大的運動，藝術和娛樂的巔峰。有人卻認為無腦。一個游戲設計師和交互計算機教授對游戲的意義進行思考。

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《七次謀殺簡史》A Brief History of Seven Killings
作者：Marlon James

A failed assassination of Bob Marley becomes a prism through which to see Jamaica's history from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. Violent, lurid, scabrous, hilarious and beautiful, this novel teems with life, death and narrators.
對Bob Marley一次失敗的謀殺成為七十年代出初到九十年代初牙買加歷史的鏡子。暴力、夸張、猥瑣、放浪卻又美麗，這部小說洋溢著生與死，有眾多講述者。

《捕魚者說》The Fishermen
作者：Chigozie Obioma

A lyrical retelling of the Cain-and-Abel story in which four Nigerian brothers play truant from school, go fishing and meet a soothsayer who predicts that one brother will kill another. Not yet 30, Chigozie Obioma is a writer to watch.
該隱殺弟的重演。四個尼日利亞兄弟逃課、打漁，碰到了一個算命者說一個兄弟要殺死其他三個。作者不過三十歲，他的作品大有看點。

《下面的西王母》Seiobo There Below
作者：Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Seventeen stories by a Hungarian modernist whose sentences wind and unwind and rewind, creating what one translator described as "a slow lava-flow of narrative, a vast black river of type".
匈牙利現代主義者的十七個故事，文辭婉轉，譯者稱之為"a slow lava-flow of narrative, a vast black river of type"。

《投降》Submission
作者：Michel Houellebecq

No other French novelist knows how to stir trouble quite like Michel Houellebecq. This account of France under Muslim rule is set in 2022. It came out on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack and has been called scaremongering. Its fans say it speaks to France's deepest secret fears.
沒有哪個法國小說家比Michael Houellebecq更會挑事兒。他假想法國在2022年被穆斯林占領。這發生在《查理周刊》事件后，被指為兜售恐慌。其支持者則認為其道出法國最深處的恐懼。

《小生活》A Little Life
作者：Hanya Yanagihara

On the surface a story about four university graduates trying to make it in New York, at heart Hanya Yanagihara's second novel is a fairy-tale about child abuse, pitting good against evil, love against viciousness, hope against hopelessness.
表面上是四個大學畢業生在紐約謀生活的故事，實質上是作者關于兒童虐待的童話：正對邪，愛對惡，希望對無望。

《親歷者回憶偉大奧克的衰落》An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It
作者：Jessie Greengrass

Restraint and a formal writing style, by a philosophy graduate from Cambridge University, give a tone of melancholy to this spectacularly accomplished, chilly debut collection of short stories about thwarted lives and opportunities missed. The strongest are also the most ordinary.
劍橋大學哲學畢業生的首部短篇小說集風格端正，格調憂郁，講述了被扼殺的生命和失去的機會。最熾烈的也是最平淡的。

《丟失的孩子》The Story of the Lost Child
作者：Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein

This four-volume narrative, with all its operatic overtones, is a tribute to feminism and female friendship in mid-20th-century Naples.
四卷本的故事行文如歌，謳歌了二十世紀中葉那不勒斯的女性主義和女性友誼。

（來源：英文聯播 編輯：丁一）