异域迷的天大喜讯，詹姆斯·阿兰·加得纳将续写《烈火魔尘》

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本文涉及严重剧透，慎入，后果自负。

说起异度风景的小说，人们首先想到的总是詹姆斯•阿兰•加得纳的那本精彩绝伦的《烈火魔尘》。可惜的是这本书读完之后总给人意犹未尽的感觉，书中留下了太多伏笔没有解决，让人觉得这并不是一部完工的作品。近日，詹姆斯•阿兰•加得纳在博客上写到，这本书本来是一个四部曲的第一部，后来由于未获得官方的授权而搁笔，时隔多年，加得纳准备重拾妙笔，完成这个精彩的故事，并且仍然采用在博客上发表的方式，以纪念逝去的异度风景设定。下文摘译自他的博客，涉及到后续故事的梗概，大家可以先睹为快。


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当然，在《烈火魔尘》之后还有后续的故事（尽管我希望没有续集这也是一个独立的冒险故事）。在接下来的几页里我将简要的介绍整个系列的故事梗概。

我恐怕在这里我只能给出一个模糊的框架，因为我喜欢随着故事的进展让细节逐步完善。特别是对于第一本留下的许多问题，到目前我还没有答案，抱歉。不过我保证在后续的故事里会解决它们。

另外，下文涉及了很多《烈火魔尘》中的情节，如果你还没有读过那本书，那么最好就此打住。

结构

这个系列一共将有四本，暂定的题目如下：
•        Fire and Dust
•        Water and Light
•        Air and Ooze
•        Earth and Ash

就想烈火魔尘中有很多火的意象一样，在其它几本书中将充满水、空气和土的意象（故事一开始，布特林、哈泽坎和米丽亚姆穿过玻璃蜘蛛的传送门跳进了天堂山的圣洁海水之中）。

在接下来的三本书中，也将生动的刻画题目中提到的三个内层位面的风貌，分别是光芒位面、软泥位面和灰烬位面。在每一本书中，反派都会在相应的位面有一个据点，而布特林和伙伴们最后不得不在此与之决战。

说到反派……在烈火魔尘中瑞薇提到她有两个姐姐：分别是术士和牧师。不过瑞薇没提到的是她对两个姐姐进行了精神上的改造，使得她们变得和她自己一样邪恶。

事实上，这三姐妹一直密谋要袭击印记城。虽然瑞薇被干掉了，但另外两个姐妹还在：一个高阶术士和一个高阶牧师，疯狂地想把印记城据为己有。

在圣水魔光（Water and Light）中，布特林和他的同伴无意中陷入了牧师姐姐的圈套。在瑞薇对她洗脑之前，她是个善良神祗的牧师，对天堂山了如指掌……包括哪里可以让一个邪恶的牧师藏身。她通过玻璃蜘蛛中的传送门与瑞薇保持联系，所以她的据点和我们的英雄出现的位置非常接近。

接下来，在Air and Ooze（没想好译名）中主角一行将遭遇术士姐姐（专精于风和空气类的法术）。布特林知道她很可能也被瑞薇腐蚀了，因为如果一个姐姐被洗脑了，另一个很可能也难逃魔爪。因此尽管并不情愿，布特林还是来到瑞薇家乡的位面并寻找蛛丝马迹来追捕女术士。

Earth and Ash是这个系列的完结篇，在这一本中三姐妹卷土重来。加诺（在烈火魔尘中被布特林羞辱的那个冥河船夫）在下层位面中找到了已经变成祁并者的三姐妹，并通过在星界的不同地点找回她们支离破碎的记忆使得她们回复如初。于是三个人一起回来向布特林的小队开战，一方面是为了报仇，另一方面也是因为我们的英雄们掌握了一种可以拿来对抗印记城的技艺。

尚未决定的结尾

由于我总是边写边构思，所以可能现在还不能回答读者的很多问题。这就是说我有一些初步的构想，但在我写作的过程中，这些构想可能会改变。

比如……到底亚敏是不是布特林的妹妹（或者同父异母妹妹）？好吧，下面是我脑海中的一些胡思乱想。布特林和其他人不知道的是，他的父亲其实是一对双胞胎中的一个。（这就解释了为什么奈尔斯.卡文迪许有这么多的英雄事迹：实际上有两个他。）

奈尔斯在一个午夜消失，那时他的兄弟找到他去完成一件需要两人合力完成的紧急事件。此后奈尔斯和他的兄弟一直陷在这件事中不得脱身。布特林是其中一人的儿子，而亚敏则是另一个的女儿。因此布特林和亚敏是堂兄妹而不是亲兄妹。

顺便提一句，奈瑟斯的哥哥名叫托比。对，就是那个声名狼藉的托比叔叔，这意味着奈尔斯自己是哈泽坎的父亲，而布特林是哈泽坎同父异母的哥哥。



博客原文：

Fire and Dust Sequels
Of course I wrote Fire and Dust with possible sequels in mind (although I hope the book stands on its own as a complete adventure anyway). The rest of this page gives a brief sketch of what the entire series would have looked like.

Note: I'm afraid the ideas are mostly vague because I like to make things up as I go along. In particular, I don't have answers to a number of questions raised in the first book. Sorry.

By the way, this material contains a few spoilers related to Fire and Dust. You may not want to read this if you haven't read the book.

Structure
The series would have four books, with the following tentative titles:

Fire and Dust
Water and Light
Air and Ooze
Earth and Ash

Just as Fire and Dust had a lot of fire imagery, the other novels would have water, air, and earth imagery (beginning with Britlin, Hezekiah and Miriam passing through the portal from the Glass Spider to Mount Celestia and plunging into Mount Celestia's holy water ocean).

The three unwritten novels would also feature extended sequences in the inner planes mentioned in the titles: Radiance, Ooze, and Ash. In each book, the villain would have a stronghold in the relevant plane which Britlin and company would eventually have to confront.

As for the villains...in Fire and Dust Rivi mentions that she has two sisters: one who was trained in sorcery and one who was trained in clerical magic. What Rivi doesn't mention is that she performed psychic surgery on the sisters, making them both as nasty as Rivi herself.

In fact, the three sisters have been working on a master plan to mount an assault on Sigil. Rivi may be gone, but the other two are still out there: a high-powered sorceress and a high-powered cleric, madly conspiring to grab Sigil for themselves.

In Water and Light, Britlin and company would stumble straight into the cleric sister's schemes. She was a priestess of a Good deity before Rivi brainwashed her, and she has extensive knowledge of Mount Celestia... including places where a now-evil cleric can hide. She kept in touch with Rivi by shuttling back and forth through the portal in the Glass Spider, so she's very close by when our heroes show up.

Air and Ooze would move on to the sorceress sister (who specializes in wind sorcery and other airy stuff). Britlin goes after her because he knows she's probably been corrupted by Rivi; if Rivi brainwashed one sister, she probably whazzed the other one too. Reluctantly, he would find Rivi's home plane and follow a trail of clues to seek out the sorceress.

Earth and Ash would finish the series by bringing back all three sisters once more. Giroux (the ferryman humiliated by Britlin in Fire and Dust) has found Rivi and company as petitioners in the Lower Planes and has restored them to their old despicable selves by fetching their memories back from various depositories in the Astral plane. All three come gunning for Britlin and company, partly for revenge and partly because our heroes have been acquiring a useful set of artifacts that the sisters can use against Sigil

alfred

我感动的热泪盈眶.....

m_hunter

这个不是愚人节的笑话吧,如果是假的

作者太狠了

Shrewd

[y:4] 早就听说它续集的剧情，现在终于打算续写了啊！

Evana

.......

我得說這大概是愚人節玩笑....

m_hunter

PK你从哪里搞的？这真是愚人节的大笑话，太狠了，太狠了。。。

我要去北京PK你[s:13]

看这个，注意我加黑的部分。作者的blog见最后。

其实PK这篇文还不错，告诉大家作者的写作大纲了，至少可以让我们知道故事本来打算如何发展[s:12]

James Alan Gardner, Writer: Rambling Thoughts

Theoretically, this is the section where I allow myself to blather on about whatever is on my mind. In practice, it may end up being a place where I put things that don't fit elsewhere.
The PlaneScape Novel: Fire and Dust

I wrote Fire and Dust because I fell in love with the PlaneScape setting in Dungeons & Dragons. This is a silly thing for a professional writer to do, without a contract in hand. So it goes. The novel wanted to be written and I had a good time doing it.

I finished the novel in June 1995, before TSR published "The Factols' Manifesto". Therefore, a number of things in the book don't gibe with the Manifesto or with supplements published since then. Sorry. I was willing to write the book on spec, but I can't justify going back and making changes now, just to keep it consistent with new material. I wrote it the way it is, and that's how it's going to stay.

When I finished the book, I sent it to my agent who sent it to TSR. My agent finally heard back from them in June 1996 (which tells you how long it sat on TSR's desk...let that be another warning to anyone who writes D&D books on spec). The book was rejected.

So what was I going to do with a novel that was rejected by its only possible market? Make it available on the Web, of course.

You can get the novel in various formats by going to Official Planescape fiction site. If the link doesn't work, or if there's some problem with you using the version you get, mail me and we'll try to figure out what's happening.

And for the people who have wondered about sequels to Fire and Dust...I'm not going to write any (unless Wizards of the Coast offers me enough cash to make it worth my while), but you can find out how I thought the sequels would go by clicking here.

Why I Am Not Writing the Last Three Books

Much as it was fun to write Fire and Dust, it took me about nine months to do it...nine months when I wasn't writing other things. Furthermore, the number of people who've read the book on the web is nowhere near the number of people who've read any of my hard-copy novels (published by Eos).

I'm afraid I'm not ready to give another two years or more to produce further novels that will only be read by a handful of people. I can have just as much fun writing other things, and those other things actually bring in money.

Still, I'm happy that readers have liked Fire and Dust and I don't regret writing it. It taught me a lot about writing novel-length fiction, and I still get a kick out of some of the schticks in it (like the Portal of Flies, and the giant who's used as a Molotov cocktail). I also loved writing the action scenes, and wish I could do more slam-bang in more "serious" novels. Maybe some day a Fire and Dust movie? Well, I can always dream.

出自：

http://www.thinkage.ca/~jim/firesql.html

黑白斑点块

本来还想着有续集可以看到以满足没PST玩的空虚,没想到最终还是一场梦.

firefan

热泪盈眶......接着一盆冷水从头浇下来...[s:5]

m_hunter

现实总是残酷滴亚[y:14]

以后我对事实不这么执着了[y:3]

hhl10g

四部...
我还是暂时当做没听过这个消息吧