金色地球
The golden globe
John Varley · 初版 1998 年
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很高兴看到有人推荐 John Varley 的作品（《金球》）。这位科幻作家确实被低估了。他的文笔带着点海因莱因的味道。他的“盖亚三部曲”（Gaea Trilogy）也非常有创意。
Nice to see a recommendation for one of John Varley's works (The Golden Globe). There is one sci-fi author who is underappreciated. His writing has touches of Heinlein. His Gaea Trilogy is really creative too.
我极力推荐 Bernard Moitessier 的《The Long Way》和《The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst》。这两本书都讲述了“星期日泰晤士报金球帆船赛”中两位原本能夺冠却未能夺冠的选手的故事，原因相当耐人寻味且各不相同。http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Golden_Globe_Race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst
I cannot recommend 'The Long Way' by Bernard Moitessier & 'The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst' highly enough. Both books cover how 2 contestants in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race could have won but did not, for rather interesting/different reasons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Golden_Globe_Race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst
《钢铁海滩》（Steel Beach）和《金球》（Golden Globe）都是极棒的书。
Steel Beach and Golden Globe are both great books.
这让我想起了 John Varley 的小说《金球》。在那部小说中，极其强大的人工智能掌管着社会的大部分日常运转，其中一个 AI 提到——从技术角度来说——它们完全可以建立起史上最专制……
I'm reminded of the novel The Golden Globe, by john varley. In that novel very powerful AI handle most day to day operations of society, and it is mentioned by one of them that - technologically speaking - they could create the single most despotic…
John Varley 在科幻小说《金球》中构想了这样一个未来：存在两个独立运作的 AI：一个专门用于帮助人类、无所不知，另一个则是专门用于执法的 AI，其权限被限制在一个极小的……
John Varley in the science fiction novel The Golden Globe envisioned a future where there are two separate AIs: one that is solely designed to help people, that knows everything, and a separate AI designed for law enforcement that is constrained to a limited…