2015考研英语翻译最后冲刺模拟（三）
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There is no question that science-fiction writers have become more
ambitious, stylistically and thematically, in recent years. (1) (But this may
have less to do with the luring call of academic surroundings than with changing
market conditions—a factor that academic critics rarely take into account.)
Robert Silverberg, a former president of The Science Fiction Writers of America,
is one of the most prolific professionals in a field dominated by people who
actually write for a living. (Unlike mystery or Western writers, most
science-fiction writers cannot expect to cash in on fat movie sales or TV
tie-ins.) (2) (Still in his late thirties, Silverberg has published more than a
hundred books, and he is disarmingly frank about the relationship between the
quality of genuine prose and the quality of available outlet. )By his own
account, he was “an annoyingly verbal young man” from Brooklyn who picked up his
first science-fiction book at the age of ten, started writing seriously at the
age of thirteen, and at seventeen nearly gave up in despair over his inability
to break into the pulp magazines. (3)( At his parents’ urging, he enrolled in
Columbia University, so that, if worst came to worst, he could always go to the
School of Journalism and “get a nice steady job somewhere”.) During his
sophomore year, he sold his first science-fiction story to a Scottish magazine
named Nebula. By the end of his junior year, he had sold a novel and twenty more
stories. (4) (By the end of his senior year, he was earning two hundred dollars
a week writing science fiction, and his parents were reconciled to his pursuit
of the literary life. )“I became very cynical very quickly,” he says. First I
couldn’t sell anything, then I could sell everything. The market played to my
worst characteristics. An editor of a schlock magazine would call up to tell me
he had a ten-thousand-word hole to fill in his next issue. I’d fill it overnight
for a hundred and fifty dollars. I found that rewriting made no difference. (5)(
I knew I could not possibly write the kinds of things I admired as a
reader—Joyce, Kafka, Mann—so I detached myself from my work.) I was a phenomenon
among my friends in college, a published, selling author. But they always asked,
“When are you going to do something serious?” —meaning something that wasn’t
science fiction—and I kept telling them, “ When I’m financially secure.”
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