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The family trade
Charles Stross · 初版 2004 年
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承袭 Roger Zelazny 的 Chronicles of Amber 风格的大胆奇幻之作，The Merchant Princes 是当下最炙手可热的科幻新星打造的全新宏篇系列！Miriam Beckstein 原本生活顺遂。她是波士顿一家高科技杂志社的优秀记者，做着热爱的工作，收入颇丰。当调研员为她带来一起洗钱阴谋的铁证时，Miriam 以为自己挖到了年度重磅新闻。可当她将报道呈交给主编时，却被当场解雇，还收到了来自被曝光罪犯的死亡威胁。夜幕降临前，她又收到了
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813407 还有别忘了：“天空呈现出一台报废笔记本屏幕的颜色，银灰色，且饱含雨意。”——Charles Stross，《The Family Trade》，2004 年。“岛屿上空的天空呈现出电视调到死频道的颜色——也就是说，是一片明媚欢快的蓝色！”——Robert J. Sawyer，《Wake》，2009 年。可能还有更多。
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813407 And not to forget: "The sky was the color of a dead laptop display, silver-gray and full of rain." - Charles Stross, The Family Trade. 2004 "The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright cheery blue.!" - Robert J. Sawyer, Wake. 2009 There are probably more.
……科幻，除去某些额外的情节设定，而对于奇幻科幻来说，它有自己的一套规则，但那些并不是我们的物理现实规则。比如，某种跨入其他平行宇宙的天赋能力（比如 Roger Zelazny 的《Amber》，或者 Charles Stross 的《The Family Trade》），或是利用某种机器（Stephen Baxter 和 Terry Pratchett 的《Long Earth》系列）。我是从 Kim Stanley Robinson 的《红火星》、《绿火星》和《蓝火星》里借用了这种线与面的争论。那些……
…SF, modulo some additional plot device, whereas for sci-fantasy it has its own rules but they're not our rules. Say, an innate ability to step into other universes (say, Amber by Roger Zelazny, or the Family Trade by Charles Stross), or using a machine (the Long Earth books by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett). I take this line-vs-area argument from /Red/, /Green/ and /Blue Mars/ by Kim Stanley Robinson. Those…
如果它跟《The Family Trade》系列小说差不多的话，那经济或金融主题可能只是用来给主线剧情润色和烘托氛围的。我可不指望作者真能成为像 Stefan Baxter 那样的“硬核经济学”作家……
If it's anything like the Family Trade series of books then the economic or financial subject may only be used to colour the main plot and give a mood. I don't expect the author to actually be a "hard-economic" author like Stefan Baxter is…