我从小就是罗伯特·阿斯普林（Robert Asprin）的忠实粉丝，他写了《神话》（Another Fine Myth）系列。最近发现他已经去世了，我就去读了他生前最新的作品《野龙》（Dragons Wild）。虽然是本青少年小说，但读起来既有趣又让人怀旧。在那之前我读的是阿拉斯泰尔·雷诺兹（Alistair Reynolds）的《太阳之屋》（House of Suns）。讲的是极远未来的……
Growing up, I was a big fan of Robert Aspirin who wrote the Another Fine Myth series. I found out he died recently so I picked up his latest, Dragons Wild. It's a young adult novel but it was a fun, nostalgic read. Prior to that it was House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds. Far-future…
……手够巧才能做到，但你也可以通过在两种手法之间切换来操纵结果。这个思路要强大得多！（奇幻）小说《神话》（Another Fine Myth）里有个例子让我印象特别深，主角必须给国王表演魔法，但他其实根本不会。他手里只有一个障眼法道具，却得装出神通广大的样子。于是他让国王选一个……
…dexterous enough for that, but you can fiddle the result anyway by alternating between two processes. This is a more powerful approach! There was an example of this that stuck with me in the (fantasy) book Another Fine Myth, in which the narrator must perform magic for a king, but lacks the ability to do magic. He has a single gimmick device and needs to pass it off as more than it is. So he asks the king to choose one…
…the Tide - 1Q84 (staggeringly incomplete) - The Desert Spear (incomplete) - The Lost Fleet: {Dauntless,Fearless,Courageous} (third one incomplete) - Superintelligence - Nexus, Crux (incomplete) - Another Fine Myth - The Annihilation Score - The Man with the Golden Torc, Daemons are Forever - The Fractal Prince (incomplete) - Crooked - Ancillary Mercy - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - The Traitor…
我从小就是罗伯特·阿斯普林（Robert Asprin）的忠实粉丝，他写了《神话》（Another Fine Myth）系列。最近发现他已经去世了，我就去读了他生前最新的作品《野龙》（Dragons Wild）。虽然是本青少年小说，但读起来既有趣又让人怀旧。在那之前我读的是阿拉斯泰尔·雷诺兹（Alistair Reynolds）的《太阳之屋》（House of Suns）。讲的是极远未来的……
Growing up, I was a big fan of Robert Aspirin who wrote the Another Fine Myth series. I found out he died recently so I picked up his latest, Dragons Wild. It's a young adult novel but it was a fun, nostalgic read. Prior to that it was House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds. Far-future…
……手够巧才能做到，但你也可以通过在两种手法之间切换来操纵结果。这个思路要强大得多！（奇幻）小说《神话》（Another Fine Myth）里有个例子让我印象特别深，主角必须给国王表演魔法，但他其实根本不会。他手里只有一个障眼法道具，却得装出神通广大的样子。于是他让国王选一个……
…dexterous enough for that, but you can fiddle the result anyway by alternating between two processes. This is a more powerful approach! There was an example of this that stuck with me in the (fantasy) book Another Fine Myth, in which the narrator must perform magic for a king, but lacks the ability to do magic. He has a single gimmick device and needs to pass it off as more than it is. So he asks the king to choose one…
……《潮起》（the Tide） - 《1Q84》（严重烂尾） - 《沙漠之矛》（未读完） - 《失落的舰队：{不屈号、无畏号、英勇号}》（第三本未读完） - 《超智能》 - 《连接》、《症结》（未读完） - 《神话》（Another Fine Myth） - 《歼灭得分》 - 《金项圈男子》、《恶魔永存》 - 《分形王子》（未读完） - 《歪斜》 - 《辅助仁慈》 - 《通往愤怒小星球的漫漫长路》 - 《叛徒》……
…the Tide - 1Q84 (staggeringly incomplete) - The Desert Spear (incomplete) - The Lost Fleet: {Dauntless,Fearless,Courageous} (third one incomplete) - Superintelligence - Nexus, Crux (incomplete) - Another Fine Myth - The Annihilation Score - The Man with the Golden Torc, Daemons are Forever - The Fractal Prince (incomplete) - Crooked - Ancillary Mercy - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - The Traitor…