魔法消逝
The Magic Goes Away
Larry Niven · 初版 1978 年
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世界上曾经存在过魔法……但成群自私、短视的魔法师耗尽了运转世界的 mana，魔法正在消逝。即使是最强大的法术也迅速变得无济于事，因此，手持半截断剑的悲伤阿开亚人 Orolandes 踏上了寻找失落力量的征途。然而诸神与 Fair Atlantis 皆已殒落。灵性生物、独角兽和半人马正在死去。很快，世界上所有璀璨的事物都将逝去，唯余尘土泥块——而那些该死的愚蠢野蛮人和他们该死的愚蠢铁剑终将获胜……摘自……
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Larry Niven。他早期的作品：《Ringworld》，以及他所有的短篇小说集，尤其是《Neutron Star》。他还在《The Magic Goes Away》中用科幻视角解构了魔法。我认为 Vernor Vinge 的 AFUTD 和 ADITS 是最接近 Niven 风格的作品。
Larry Niven. His older stuff: Ringworld. and all his short-story collections, especially Neutron Star. He also did a scifi take on magic, in The Magic Goes Away. I see Vinor Vinge's AFUTD and ADITS as the closest thing to Niven.
……这阻止了那种情况的发生。因此，像平方反比定律和（魔法）能量守恒定律这类的东西，确实在防止游戏变得极度失衡方面帮了大忙。当我读 Niven 的《The Magic Goes Away》时，我觉得这是对“魔法作为一种替代科学”的有趣诠释，而 Zelazny 关于异世界魔法的未完结三部曲《Changeling》，则是一次有趣的“魔法无处不在……
…which prevented that from happening. So thinks like the inverse square law and conservation of (magical) energy really help out in keeping the game from becoming radically unbalanced. When I read "The Magic Goes Away" by Niven I felt it was an interesting take on 'magic as alternate scientific thing' and Zelazny's unfinished "Changling" trilogy about magic in an alternate world an interesting 'magic is where you find…
他们写了整整一篇文章讨论这个话题，居然没提 Larry Niven 的贡献？根据维基百科，《Not Long Before the End》首次发表于 1969 年。http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Goes_Away 话虽如此，我必须承认他的概念与现代电脑 RPG 里的概念还是有所不同——他的“法力（mana）”是普遍存在于环境中的，而不是特定属于某个个体的……
Did they write a whole article on the subject without mentioning Larry Niven's role? Per Wikipedia, "Not Long Before the End" was first published in 1969. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Goes_Away That said, I must confess that there was a difference between his concept and the modern computer-RPG one -- his mana was present in the environment in general, rather than being specific to any one…
……不能按字面意思去理解。相反，它们被当作警世故事，也是一种指引所有人内心复杂情感与冲动迷宫的地图。[1] 在 Larry Niven 的《The Magic Goes Away》里有这样一个场景：一个叫 Clubfoot 的巫师谈起自己当年作为众多年轻学徒之一，被师父带到山顶。大巫师给一朵云施了法，让他们在上面蹦蹦跳跳地玩耍，没有……
…aren't to be taken literally. Rather, they are meant as cautionary tales and as a sort of map to the maze of inner feelings and impulses within all human beings. [1] There is a scene in Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away where one wizard (Clubfoot) is talking about being one of many young apprentices taken up to a mountaintop by his master. The master wizard enchanted a cloud and let them play bouncing around on it, no…
……从第一性原理、基于物理的思维方式去思考，而仅仅是回忆过去的记忆，并以一种直觉、模糊的模式匹配来进行推理。在 Niven 和 Pournelle 合著的《The Magic Goes Away》一书中，一位巫师把他的学徒们带上一座高耸的山峰，并施法让学徒们能在云朵上行走。这其实有一个隐藏的目的：在每一个班级里，总有一些学徒会……
…thinking in a first principles, physics-based mindset, but just instead just recalling previous memories and reasoning in an intuitive, fuzzy kind of pattern-matching. In the Niven/Pournelle book The Magic Goes Away, one of the wizards takes his apprentices up to a high peak and casts a spell to enable his apprentices to walk on clouds. There is a hidden purpose: In every group class, some of his apprentices goes…
错失良机部门：标题本该叫《The Magic Goes Away》，借用那部 Larry Niven 的小说。
Missed opportunity dept.: the title should have been "The Magic Goes Away", in reference to the Larry Niven novel.