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[资源] Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin Epub (乔治马丁：热夜之梦Epub)

From Wikipedia,
Fevre Dream is a 1982 vampire novel written by best-selling U. S. novelist George R. R. Martin. It is set on the antebellum Mississippi River beginning in 1857 and can be described as "Bram Stoker meets Mark Twain". The novel was first published in the U. S. by Poseidon Press in 1982 and still remains in print. Fevre Dream was reprinted in 2001 by Orion Books as volume 13 of their Fantasy Masterworks series and was nominated in 1983 for both the Locus Poll Award and World Fantasy Award.

Plot
Abner Marsh, a remarkably unattractive but highly skilled steamboat captain, is grappling with a financial crisis in 1857 when he is contacted by Joshua York, a rich, soft-spoken gentleman. They become unlikely business partners when Joshua promises to finance the construction of a magnificent new steamboat that will be larger, faster, and more opulent than any other riverboat ever constructed: the pride of the Mississippi River.

When finally completed, she is everything Abner has ever dreamed of piloting. The large white, blue, and silver paddle steamer is christened Fevre Dream, for Abner's previously failing company, the Fevre River Packet Company; Joshua and Abner co-captain the new vessel, with Abner being solely responsible for her actual command and navigation. Many questions are soon raised by both the crew and passengers about Joshua York and his circle of unusual friends, who hardly ever venture out of their cabins during daylight hours. Abner's own suspicions about his mysterious partner begin to grow when he finds scrapbooks in Joshua's cabin containing newspaper clippings detailing many mysterious, unexplained deaths.

He confronts Joshua, who reveals that he and his friends are vampire hunters using the Fevre Dream as their base of operations to investigate a trail of unusual deaths and disappearances along the mighty river. In time, however, Joshua finally reveals the whole truth: he and his friends are themselves vampires, very humanlike living beings specialized to and recurrently dependent upon hunting humans, characterized by Joshua as "a different race." Joshua has developed a potion, using ancient alchemy and rudimentary chemistry, which controls the "red thirst" of all vampires. This has led many of his kind to consider him the "Pale King," a kind of vampire messiah destined to free them from their dependence on hunting humans. Joshua is on a personal crusade to free his people of their need to feed on the warm, living blood of humanity, and his travelling companions have all submitted to his control as their lord (or "bloodmaster"

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The ancient and evil Damon Julian, a rival bloodmaster, formerly of New Orleans, soon learns of Joshua's efforts. He boards the Fevre Dream with his own vampire followers and manages to overpower and depose Joshua, becoming the new bloodmaster of all vampires aboard the Fevre Dream, including Joshua. Abner escapes, and sets out to hunt the Fevre Dream, which Julian now uses for his own nefarious purposes. After a failed attempt to retake his lost, now demonic ship, Marsh spends his remaining money searching up and down the Mississippi and its tributaries, until he is finally forced to give up the search. Marsh later serves as an agent of the Underground Railroad and a naval officer during the American Civil War, all the while being haunted by the memory of his lost riverboat. Years later, in 1870, after receiving a surprising letter from Joshua, a retired Abner Marsh travels to New Orleans to help Joshua finally depose the evil bloodmaster who has ruined both of their dreams. Aboard the decaying Fevre Dream, the two vampires eventually square-off, and with Abner's aid, Joshua finally overpowers Damon and becomes the bloodmaster once again.

The novel closes many decades later by suggesting that all vampires, though still effectively immortal, were eventually freed from their blood addiction by Joshua's potion and Abner's brave efforts on their behalf. They make nighttime pilgrimages to Abner's grave overlooking the Mississippi, continuing to honor his heroic contribution to their cause of freedom, and Joshua York most often of all.

来自百度百科：
《热夜之梦》是马丁壮年时期的代表作，也是马丁最成功的作品之一，自1984年出版以来，至今仍然不断再版。《热夜之梦》讲述了美国南北战争前后在密西西比河上发生的一段吸血鬼故事，它以蒸汽轮船作为舞台，以追求梦想贯穿始终，彻底突破了以往人们对吸血鬼小说和吸血鬼形象的认识，历来被视为与安妮·莱斯的《夜访吸血鬼》齐名的经典，并在二十一世纪初入选了英国格兰兹出版社的“奇幻大师杰作系列”。

内容简介
《热夜之梦》是蒸汽时代的美国，雄心勃勃的船长和水手统治着密西西比河，在这条美国大动脉水道上竞相追逐，争夺金钱和荣誉——汽笛长鸣，白烟滚滚，鸣奏着高亢激越的交响曲。一条华丽的新汽轮下水，交响曲中响起一个不谐和音——“菲佛之梦”，它一路飞奔，将这条大河上的所有快船抛到身后。但它追逐的不是第一快船的荣誉，而是鲜血，因为驱策它的是古老的血族吸血鬼。“菲佛之梦”一路行来，将密西西比搅成一条血河；而它自身，也渐渐变成一条血船。吸血鬼与人、吸血鬼之间，爱恨情仇，无不浸透在浓稠的血浆之中。但是，从血泊中，诞生了最伟大的情感：友谊和希望。
《热夜之梦》是乔治·马丁在吸血鬼题材上所做的大胆尝试，不仅在1984年的读者评选中位列三甲，而且不断再版，成为世界吸血鬼小说流派中的一座里程碑。

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