Percy Jackson & The Olympians1: The Lightning Thief 波西傑克森1:神火之賊
Percy Jackson is a 12-year-old with ADHD and dyslexia. Percy goes to a school called Yancy Academy, which is a school for troubled kids. During a field trip, Percy is attacked by Alecto, a mythological creature known as a Fury, who was disguised as his pre-algebra teacher Mrs. Dodds. Percy kills Mrs. Dodds with a pen sword that his latin teacher threw to him. He is unaware that it is a powerful important sword. After Mrs. Dodds is gone, everybody acts like she was never there and Mrs. Dodds was replaced. Percy Jackson does not know this at this point, but this is because of the Mist (a magical aroma that can manipulate thoughts and memory to keep humans from knowing the truth). Now only Grover, Mr. Brunner, and Percy ever knew she existed. On the field trip, Percy is expelled like on any field trip and on the the last day and sees three old women cutting yarn, and gets freaked out (The Fates). He rushes home and abandons his friend to go on a vacation with his mom to Montauk, but terrible weather strikes. Once Percy tells his mom what happened, his mom gets horrified that he didn't tell her. A satyr named Grover Underwood, and his mother Sally Jackson, then bring him to Camp Half-Blood, a camp for demigods: children with an Olympian Greek god for one parent. While avoiding the Minotaur's attacks, his mother is killed (or at least that's what Percy thinks). Percy then finds a strange strength inside of him and kills the Minotaur. He carries Grover down to camp half-blood and faints on the front porch. Once he revives, he realizes he is in Camp Half-Blood. The camp is located off Long Island. There, he meets Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. They become good friends by the end of the novel. Not long after his arrival, Poseidon, the sea god, claims Percy as his son during a game of demigod-style capture-the-flag, when he is almost killed by a hellhound. Percy is accused of stealing Zeus' masterbolt and then he, Annabeth, and Grover are given 10 days to return the thunderbolt to Mount Olympus, in order to stop a war between the gods and save his mother, who has been held hostage in the Underworld by Hades, Lord of The Dead after being captured by the Minotaur. They go on a quest across the United States and encounter various monsters on the way, such as Medusa, Echidna, and many others. It is revealed that Luke, a friend Percy had met at camp, stole the bolt for Kronos, who is attempting to rise from Tartarus.
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
With cover art from the major motion picture, this first installment of Rick Riordan's best-selling series is a non-stop thrill-ride and a classic of mythic proportions.
〈波西傑克森〉系列不只是好看的奇幻小說,也是輕鬆了解希臘神話的最佳入門。神話是西洋文學的核心源起,除了豐富奇詭的幻想及對人生問題的探索外,也反映了早期人類對自然的觀念,可說是人類文化的重要遺產。本書以高明的創作手法和情節設計,將個性鮮明的小說人物與神話角色做了最巧妙的融合與描繪,趣味十足且深刻淋漓,大大激發讀者對希臘神話的好奇和進一步了解探究的動機,確是涵養新時代少年「文學力」的最佳敲門磚。
★繁體中文版,特別加入編/譯註、主要角色介紹,讓讀者一目瞭然,輕鬆掌握角色特性,相互脈絡。文學性&知識性兼顧。
問題學生波西.傑克森在一次校外教學中,意外的將討人厭的數學老師憑空蒸發掉。當他又一次面臨被學校開除的命運時,不禁開始懷疑自己的人生到底出了什麼問題?那些從小一路跟著他的過動行為、適應不良、閱讀障礙等情形,可能並不像表面上看起來那麼單純,背後究竟隱藏著什麼奇詭的秘密?
原來,波西是個「混血人」。伴隨這個發現而來的,是一場驚心動魄、懸疑刺激的歷險旅程……波西先被送到「混血營」受訓,接著被指派和他的兩個朋友──格羅佛和安娜貝斯,一起接下了困難的尋找任務。天神宙斯最重要的「閃電火」失竊了,只有十天的時間,波西必須找回閃電火,揪出真正的小偷,揭開叛亂的陰謀,才能消弭奧林帕斯眾神間一觸即發的戰爭危機。
帶著與眾不同的詭奇身世,波西在凡人和眾神的世界裡,一路驚險穿梭進出。無比廣闊的想像空間與戲劇張力,在書頁中不斷湧現……
作者簡介
雷克.萊爾頓 (Rick Riordan)
美國知名作家,寫過膾炙人口的小說,其中的〈特雷斯.納瓦荷〉系列曾勇奪推理小說界的愛倫坡、夏姆斯、安東尼三大獎項;他也是〈The 39 Clues〉系列的策劃者與作者之一。萊爾頓早期是一位英文老師及小提琴演奏家,從事教職達十五年之久,對於青少年、校園生活及教育議題有相當程度的了解和熱情。他同時也是兩個男孩的父親,兒子還是〈波西傑克森〉系列的重要推手呢!
〈波西傑克森〉系列出版後,不但榮登《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜冠軍,更席捲《出版者週刊》、《洛杉磯時報》與全美獨立書店排行榜。此後萊爾頓的邀約不斷,行程滿檔,無論美國、英國,甚至地中海的馬爾他島都走透透。美商二十世紀福斯影片公司已高價買下電影版權。
萊爾頓目前和太太及兩個兒子住在美國德州的聖安東尼奧。想進一步了解雷克?萊爾頓或波西的相關資訊,請上他的個人網站:www.rickriordan.com。









