It's like a bit from The Smoke Ring (or Integral Trees) by Larry Niven, where a very weird planetary configuration made a human-habitable ecosystem out of an orbiting ring of gas. [0] The locals refer to "East" as in the direction of orbit…
As Larry Niven wrote in The Smoke Ring and The Integral Trees... "West takes you In, In takes you East, East takes you Out, Out takes you West, North and South bring you back again." https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=3341.0
Forward is the author :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward#Fiction note wrt to comment elsewhere in this thread that Forward was also involved with physical aspects of the Integral Trees/Smoke Ring world build.
或者更直接点，参考尼文（Niven）的《烟雾之环》（The Smoke Ring），讲的是人类直接生活在环绕白矮星的含氧吸积盘里的故事。
Or, more directly, Niven’s “The Smoke Ring” about humans living directly in an oxygenated accretion disk around a white dwarf.
这就像拉里·尼文（Larry Niven）在《烟雾之环》（或者《积分树》）里的一个脑洞：极其诡异的行星构造让一条环绕轨道运行的气体环变成了一个适合人类居住的生态系统。[0] 当地人把公转轨道方向称为“东”……
It's like a bit from The Smoke Ring (or Integral Trees) by Larry Niven, where a very weird planetary configuration made a human-habitable ecosystem out of an orbiting ring of gas. [0] The locals refer to "East" as in the direction of orbit…
正如拉里·尼文在《烟雾之环》和《积分树》中写道……“向西带你向内，向内带你向东，向东带你向外，向外带你向西，向北向南带你兜圈子。”https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=3341.0
As Larry Niven wrote in The Smoke Ring and The Integral Trees... "West takes you In, In takes you East, East takes you Out, Out takes you West, North and South bring you back again." https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=3341.0
福沃德（Forward）才是作者 :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward#Fiction 顺便补充一句（呼应这个帖子里其他地方的讨论）：福沃德当年也参与了《积分树》/《烟雾之环》的世界观物理机制构架。
Forward is the author :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward#Fiction note wrt to comment elsewhere in this thread that Forward was also involved with physical aspects of the Integral Trees/Smoke Ring world build.