生而流亡 (1978)

《生而流亡》是美国作家菲利斯·爱森斯坦于1978年出版的奇幻小说，也是她的阿拉里克三部曲中的第一部。（注：本译者未找到第三部，只找到了收录于《法外之徒》中的一个短篇，不知是不是第三部。）

它最初由美国老牌出版社Arkham House出版，初版精装本售出 4,148 册；此后，它以多个平装本的形式出版，并在英国再次以精装本出版。

该小说的部分内容首先通过《奇幻与科幻杂志》作为独立的短篇作品连载。 （该系列的第二部小说《红魔之域》于 1989 年以平装本的形式由Signet Books首次出版，1992 年作为英国精装本从Grafton出版，并于 1988 年成为头一个在The Magazine连载长达三个月的幻想和科幻小说。 )

内容简介

《生而流亡》讲述了一个名叫阿拉里克的吟游诗人的流浪冒险经历，他拥有一种未知的传送能力。小说详细描述了他揭开自己过去的秘密和他神秘能力的本质的旅程。

Born to Exile is a fantasy novel by American writer Phyllis Eisenstein, the first of her three Alaric novels. It was originally published in 1978 by longtime U. S. specialty press Arkham House in a first edition trade hardcover of 4,148 copies; it has since been published in several mass-market paperback editions and again in hardcover in the UK. Portions of the novel were first serialized as individual shorter works through The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. (The second novel in the series, In The Red Lord's Reach, was first published in 1989 as a mass-market paperback from Signet Books and as a 1992 UK hardcover from Grafton, having been first serialized in 1988 as three monthly installments in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.)

Sheldon Jaffery states that this volume was the last Arkham House book to bear a colophon with the edition size stated, except for Clark Ashton Smith's The Black Book and Richard L. Tierney's Collected Poems.

Plot summary

Born to Exile concerns the adventures of a wandering minstrel called Alaric, who possesses the otherwise unknown ability to teleport. The novel details his journey to uncover the secrets of his own past and the true nature of his mysterious ability.

For eight weary months, Alaric the minstrel trudged the lonely road of exile. Born with preternatural powers, the infant Alaric had been found by foster parents abandoned on a hillside, newborn and naked, with a bloody, severed hand clutching his ankles. Older and with those powers on full display, he suddenly found himself rejected by his foster family, branded a witch-child. Alaric now wanders the world as a solitary wayfarer, with a knapsack, a few clothes, and a lute his only possessions.

On this journey, he encounters the craggy towers and shining spires of a distant castle, like some gleaming vision in one of his songs. Within, Alaric is accepted as court minstrel but becomes embroiled in palace intrigue that involves Medron, the court magician, and the King's daughter, Princess Solinde. Subsequently, he journeys to the sinister Inn of the Black Swan and then to a superstition-ensorcelled village. There, Alaric is restored to his supernatural antecedents, known as the Lords of All Power.