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Re:Yet another novel I will no longer write by plerpin on Saturday April 04, 2020 @03:15PM (#22780703)
I read Neptune's Brood and was hooked. It's a fun surreal sci-fi adventure/romp with a heck of a lot of really interesting, geeky tech interludes. Who knew a novel about futuristic accountancy and forex could be so intriguing?
Re:Yet another novel I will no longer write by shoo on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:13PM (#22781978)
> The theory of interstellar trade is a well-understood topic, with an extensive literature consisting of one paper (pdf) I wrote in 1978. Interstellar finance, however, is less well covered.

> That’s all about to change, however. I’m reading an advance copy of Charlie Stross’s Neptune’s Brood. (Hey, I have connections!) And it is the best thing by far written on the subject to date, partly because it is, as far as I know, the only thing written on the subject to date.

> It’s also a fantastic novel.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/the-theory-of-i...

> This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are derived.

https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

Re:Yet another novel I will no longer write by egypturnash on Saturday April 04, 2020 @04:42PM (#22781362)
It even has zombies!