……读过文奇（Vinge）的《天渊》（A Deepness In The Sky）吗？:) 我想知道有没有人写过关于木材在科幻小说中作为价值媒介的重要性的文章。我最早是在尼文（Niven）的《积分树》（The Integral Trees）里的树瘿（burl）注意到的，不过在彻里（Cherryh）和很多其他作家的作品里也出现过。
…read Vinge's _A_Deepness_In_The_Sky_? :) I wonder if anyone has written an essay of the significance of wood as a medium of value in science fiction. I first noticed it with the burl in Niven's the _Integral_Trees_, but it also shows up in Cherryh and lots of other authors.
…recommended. Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond * The Vital Question - Nick Lane * The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath * Convergent Series - Larry Niven * Cosmos - Carl Sagan * World of Ptaavs - Larry Niven The Integral Trees - Larry Niven The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeongseo Lee * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M Pirsig * The Thrilling…
Kinda sad that Integral Trees doesn't make the list. Although it doesn't quite fit the definition... I'd say Niven's was almost certainly a derivative twist on the same idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees
《积分树》（The Integral Trees，拉里·尼文著）：宜居空间是一个圆环面（torus）。它是一个处于轨道上的空气环。那些树之所以看起来像积分符号（integral signs），是因为它们的一端朝向恒星，但两端却常年吹着相反方向的风……
The Integral Trees (Larry Niven): the habitable space is a torus. It's a torus of air in orbit. The trees look like integral signs because they align pointed toward the star, but have constant wind in opposite directions…
…are always strange. Some of my childhood aesthetic favourites bridge the gap (Golden Witchbreed and the like). Some try to be hard sf, and concentrate hugely on one aspect but miss others (Niven, the integral trees). Clarke has his own hand-wavy moments (Cradle?). I'm not sure it's a dichotomy that yields that much value. Le Guin, Pohl, others - often venture into very fantasy settings, and still tell such wonderful…
拉里·尼文的《积分树》（The Integral Trees）是一部小说，讲的是人们生活在多星系统中引力稳定的自由漂浮大气云团里。他们生活在两端都有树冠的参天大树上，……
"The Integral Trees" by Larry Niven is a novel in which people live in a free-floating cloud of atmospheric gas that is gravitationally stable in a multi-star system. They live on enormous trees with canopies on each end,…
……读过文奇（Vinge）的《天渊》（A Deepness In The Sky）吗？:) 我想知道有没有人写过关于木材在科幻小说中作为价值媒介的重要性的文章。我最早是在尼文（Niven）的《积分树》（The Integral Trees）里的树瘿（burl）注意到的，不过在彻里（Cherryh）和很多其他作家的作品里也出现过。
…read Vinge's _A_Deepness_In_The_Sky_? :) I wonder if anyone has written an essay of the significance of wood as a medium of value in science fiction. I first noticed it with the burl in Niven's the _Integral_Trees_, but it also shows up in Cherryh and lots of other authors.
……推荐。《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》- 贾雷德·戴蒙德 * 《生命之线》（The Vital Question）- 尼克·莱恩 * 《钟形罩》- 西尔维亚·普拉斯 * 《收敛级数》（Convergent Series）- 拉里·尼文 * 《宇宙》- 卡尔·萨根 * 《普塔夫世界》（World of Ptaavs）- 拉里·尼文 《积分树》（The Integral Trees）- 拉里·尼文 《火车上的女孩》- 珀拉·霍金斯 《拥有七个名字的女孩》- 李晛瑞 * 《禅与摩托车维修艺术》- 罗伯特·M·波西格 * 《惊险刺激的……
…recommended. Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond * The Vital Question - Nick Lane * The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath * Convergent Series - Larry Niven * Cosmos - Carl Sagan * World of Ptaavs - Larry Niven The Integral Trees - Larry Niven The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeongseo Lee * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M Pirsig * The Thrilling…
《积分树》（Integral Trees）没上榜有点遗憾。虽然它不太符合那个定义……但我敢说尼文的构想几乎肯定是在同一个创意上的衍生翻新。https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees
Kinda sad that Integral Trees doesn't make the list. Although it doesn't quite fit the definition... I'd say Niven's was almost certainly a derivative twist on the same idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees
《积分树》（The Integral Trees，拉里·尼文著）：宜居空间是一个圆环面（torus）。它是一个处于轨道上的空气环。那些树之所以看起来像积分符号（integral signs），是因为它们的一端朝向恒星，但两端却常年吹着相反方向的风……
The Integral Trees (Larry Niven): the habitable space is a torus. It's a torus of air in orbit. The trees look like integral signs because they align pointed toward the star, but have constant wind in opposite directions…
……总是很奇怪。我童年时期审美上最爱的一些作品填补了这个空白（比如《金色魔女》之类的）。有些试图走硬科幻路线，极度专注于某一方面却忽略了其他方面（比如尼文的《积分树》）。克拉克也有一些糊弄过去的地方（《摇篮》？）。我不确定这种两分法有多大价值。勒瑰恩、波尔等人——经常踏入非常奇幻的设定，却依然能讲出如此精彩的……
…are always strange. Some of my childhood aesthetic favourites bridge the gap (Golden Witchbreed and the like). Some try to be hard sf, and concentrate hugely on one aspect but miss others (Niven, the integral trees). Clarke has his own hand-wavy moments (Cradle?). I'm not sure it's a dichotomy that yields that much value. Le Guin, Pohl, others - often venture into very fantasy settings, and still tell such wonderful…
拉里·尼文的《积分树》（The Integral Trees）是一部小说，讲的是人们生活在多星系统中引力稳定的自由漂浮大气云团里。他们生活在两端都有树冠的参天大树上，……
"The Integral Trees" by Larry Niven is a novel in which people live in a free-floating cloud of atmospheric gas that is gravitationally stable in a multi-star system. They live on enormous trees with canopies on each end,…