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效忠誓言

Oath of fealty

Larry Niven、Jerry Pournelle · 初版 1981 年

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(封底)在不久的将来,在犯罪、暴力、污染和贫困依然肆虐街头的荒废 Los Angeles 之上,一座乌托邦拔地而起。Todos Santos:一座千英尺高的单体结构城市。这里是科技与人文主义的完美融合,只要宣誓效忠并接受时刻被监控,特权居民就能获得想要的一切。然而,也有人渴望摧毁这座乌托邦。那些企图用一次又一次暴力行径撕碎明日希望的人,刚刚踏入了 Todos Santos。

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  • 拉里·尼文——《环形世界》(还有《环形世界工程》)、《吉尔·汉密尔顿的长臂》、《效忠誓约》(天哪!他们居然有即时通讯脑机湿件!……还有一个跳水板!)。罗伯特·海因莱因、乔·霍尔德曼和艾萨克·阿西莫夫是该领域的其他一些重量级大师。

    Larry Niven - Ringworld (+ Ringworld Engineers), The long Arm of Gil Hamilton, Oath of Fealty (Oh man! They had instant messaging wetware! ...And a diving board!). Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and Issac Asimov are some other heavy hitters in this space.

  • ……“兰德目录里一共存了多少?”“23,567,892 字节”“天哪。阿特,这得花好几个小时才能打印出来——”“是啊,给警察找点事干。”[1] [1] 拉里·尼文和杰里·波奈尔。《效忠誓约》。纽约:Pocket Books,1981年。ISBN 0-671-82802-9,第287-288页。

    …what is the total stored in Rand's directory? 23,567,892 BYTES "Good Lord. Art, that will take hours to print out---" "Yeah, that gives the cops a hobby." [1] [1] Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Oath of Fealty. New York: Pocket Books, 1981. ISBN 0-671-82802-9, pp. 287--8.

  • ……那个年代科幻小说的普遍设想是,信息来源会是这种经过人工整理的中心化知识库——在阿西莫夫笔下是《银河百科全书》,但也可以看看尼文/波奈尔的《效忠誓约》等等。而现实中我们拥有的是维基百科,以及更广泛的 Web 网络等。在许多其他科幻设定里,你同样能看到这种关于中心化、世界政府等假定。

    …of science fiction of that general era is this assumption that the information source would be this curated centralized repository--Encyclopedia Galactica in Asimov's case but also see Niven/Pournelle Oath of Fealty, etc. Instead we have Wikipedia, the web more broadly, etc. You see this assumption of centralization, world government, etc. in a lot of other SF contexts as well.

  • ……总的来说,科幻作家往往忽略了访问权限和内容生产的双重平民化。看看《银河百科全书》吧,知识是高度中心化且受人工编审的。一个更好的例子来自《效忠誓约》(杰里·波奈尔)。里面有这么一个中央知识库,但只有部分人能访问——或者说至少拥有某种脑接 Tier 1 访问权限。这可绝不是维基百科。

    …general, what science fiction authors tended to miss was the democratization of both access and content. See Encyclopedia Galactica. Knowledge is centralized and curated. An even better example comes from Oath of Fealty (Jerry Pournelle). There's this central knowledge repository but only some people can access it--or at least have some sort of mental Tier 1 access. Wikipedia it ain't.

  • 拉里·尼文和杰里·波奈尔写的《末日之锤》(Footfall,还是《效忠誓约》来着?)里有个角色把他杀掉的一个麻烦尸体堆肥处理了。我以前一直好奇这现不现实,而这篇文章给出了肯定的答案。不过要说藏尸的目的……

    A character in Footfall (or was it Oath of Fealty?), by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, composted the inconvenient body of someone he had murdered. I've wondered if that was practical and this article says affirmative. But for purposes of hiding a corpse…

  • 如果我没记错的话,尼文和波奈尔的《效忠誓约》里有一个涉及它们的越狱剧情反转……

    IIRC there's a jail-break plot twist involving them in Oath of Fealty by Niven and Pournelle…

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