| 词条 | The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model |
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|name = The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model | image = | caption = Cover of first edition (ebook) | title_orig = | translator = |author = Charlie Jane Anders |country = United States |language = English |series = |genre = Science fiction short story |publication_type = Periodical |published_in = Tor.com |publisher = Tor Books |media_type = Online magazine |pub_date = August 11, 2010 |followed_by = }} "The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model" is a science fiction short story by Charlie Jane Anders. It was first published in the online magazine Tor.com August 11, 2010.[1] SynopsisAn alien agency uses the creation of civilizations and the Fermi Paradox as a means of accumulating and collecting valuable resources. Their "business model" consists of the following steps:
It is illegal to outright invade one of the seeded civilizations, and the progenitor aliens must wait for them to drive themselves into extinction without outside interference. The progenitor-aliens do not manipulate the seeded civilization in any way, nor were they genetically designed with a predisposition to kill each other: the progenitors simply discovered that (according to the Fermi Paradox) most industrial civilizations will drive themselves into extinction before developing interstellar spaceflight. The percentage of civilizations that survive to an interstellar stage is actually so astronomically low that out of billions of planets to choose from, a single survey ship might never encounter one. Two aliens, Jon and Toku, are on their way to a planet called Earth that they assume has met its demise like all the other planets they have visited. However, after waking from stasis, they find that this is not the case. ReceptionLocus Online's Lois Tilton reviewed the short story as "an entertaining story, a neat and original take on a classic SFnal trope."[2] Tangent Online's Duane Donald reviewed it as "a very interesting tale of very long-lived extraterrestrials"[3] but noted it "was over sooner than I would have liked."[4] The short story was selected for Locus's 2010 Recommended Reading List, [5] and Gardner Dozois listed it as an 'honorable mention' for Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection.[6]References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/08/the-fermi-paradox-is-our-business-model|title=The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model by Charlie Jane Anders|author=|date=11 August 2010|work= |publisher=Tor.com |accessdate=29 September 2011}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2010/08/lois-tilton-reviews-short-fiction-late-august/#tor201008d|title=Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late August|author=Lois Tilton|date=30 August 2010|work= |publisher=Locus Online |accessdate=29 September 2011}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tangentonline.com/e-market-irregular-reviewsmenu-268/243-torcom/1446-torcom-august-2010|title=Tor.com -- August 2010|author=Duane Donald|date=26 September 2010|work= |publisher=Tangent Online |accessdate=29 September 2011}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.tangentonline.com/e-market-irregular-reviewsmenu-268/243-torcom/1446-torcom-august-2010|title=Tor.com -- August 2010|author=Duane Donald|date=26 September 2010|work= |publisher=Tangent Online |accessdate=29 September 2011}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2011/Issue02_RecommendedReading.html|title=2010 Recommended Reading List|author=|date=|work= |publisher=Locus |accessdate=29 September 2011}} 6. ^The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois; published 2011 by St. Martin's Griffin; page 653 External links
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