土星的儿女
Saturn's Children
Charles Stross · 初版 2008 年
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为什么值得读
- 深入探讨后人类社会与人工智能的经济运作
- 设定严谨，构建了不依靠人类的写实太空歌剧
在二十三世纪的某一刻，人类彻底灭绝——仅剩下了 androids。Freya Nakamichi 47 是一名 femmebot，也是同类中少数仍在运作的个体之一。由于再没有人类为她提供的取悦服务买单，她同意将一个神秘包裹从水星运送至火星。然而对 Freya 来说不幸的是，这一举动使她沦为某些实力强大、心狠手辣的 humanoids 的移动靶标，他们为了抢夺包裹内的物品将不择手段。
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Charles Stross 在他的很多作品里都融入了经济学。他的两部关联小说《土星的孩子》（Saturn's Children）和《海王星的子嗣》（Neptune's Brood）讲的全都是后人类社会的经济学。后面这本对加密货币（crypto-currency）的见解非常独到。而他的《商人王子》（Merchant Princes）系列讲的则是跨维度……
Charles Stross incorporates economics into a lot of his writing. His two related novels Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood are all about the economics of a post-human society. The latter of the two has a really interesting take on crypto-currency. His Merchant Princes series is all about how a dimensional…
……影视作品形式难道就非得是太空歌剧、外星人入侵之类的吗？如果我们要做特效，拜托别再浪费在更多的“太空牛仔”上了。何不拍拍 Charlie Stross 的《加速》（Accelerando）和《土星的孩子》（Saturn's Children），或者 Ken McLeod 的《天路》（Sky Road）等等呢。
…video form always has to be space opera, alien invasions and so on? If we are going to go for special effects let's not waste them on more space cowboys. Let's have Charlie Stross's Accelerando and Saturn's Children or Ken McLeod's Sky Road, etc.
> 如果一个完整的科幻世界观仅限于太阳系和半人马座阿尔法星，单凭这点就能构成无穷无尽的潜在故事背景。《土星的孩子》（Saturn's Children，Charles Stross 著）就是一本佳作（可惜的是，为了保证这部太空歌剧在物理层面足够严谨逼真，他不得不把人类给彻底写没了）。
> If an entire Sci-fi continuity were limited to just Sol and Alpha Centauri, this by itself would constitute an inexhaustible number of potential settings. "Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross is a good one (unfortunately he had to do away with humans to keep the space opera physically realistic).
我只是顺道过来推荐一下 Stross 的《土星的孩子》（Saturn's Children），这条评论让我想起了它。那里的 AI 是通过构建永生的人类大脑模拟、将其抚养长大、然后再克隆出来的。人类无法做到意识上传，最终走向……
I'm just hopping in to recommend "Saturn's Children" by Stross, which this comment has reminded me of. AI are created by building immortal human brain simulations, raising them, then cloning the results. Humans are not able to upload and eventually go…
《土星的孩子》（Saturn's Children）挺好看的。据我所知，Charles Stross 的所有书都值得一读。
Saturn's Children was pretty good. From what I've heard, everything by Charles Stross is worth reading.
……“故事里任何看起来稍微带点技术感的东西”。科幻，尤其是硬科幻，一直在探讨成年人的严肃议题。这里列几本我最近重读的书：厄休拉·勒古恩的《一无所有》（The Dispossessed）、Charles Stross 的《土星的孩子》（Saturn's Children）、Ken McLeod 的《光之引擎》（Engines Of Light）、亚瑟·C·克拉克的《2001太空漫游》、阿西莫夫的《曙光中的机器人》（Robots of Dawn）等等。
…'anything that looks vaguely technical in a story'. SF, especially, hard SF, has always tackled grown up questions. Here are a few I have recently re-read: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Saturn's Children by Charles Stross, Engines Of Light by Ken McLeod, 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke, Robots of Dawn, etc. by Isaac Asimov.