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原始链接: https://frequal.com/Perspectives/DrmFreeAuthors.html

本合集收录了两篇扣人心弦的生存与悬疑故事：在蒂莫西·扎恩（Timothy Zahn）所著的《伊卡洛斯之针》（*The Icarus Needle*）中，格雷戈里·罗克（Gregory Roarke）与其搭档塞琳（Selene）致力于搜寻消失的伊卡里人留下的古代瞬时传送门。在与己方组织的领导层发生冲突后，两人被困在遥远的星球上。他们必须在雄心勃勃的阿梅人（Ammei）与掠夺成性的帕斯人（Patth）之间错综复杂的冲突中求生，同时还要探寻那些早已失踪的伊卡里人是否真的已经灭绝。在凯西·埃泽尔（Kacey Ezell）所著的《沙上血痕》（*Blood on the Sand*）中，艾丽丝·艾丽丝（Aelys Aelys）带着三名被她束缚服务的随从，过着危机四伏的生活。为了逃避背叛家族的追捕，她接受了一项看似简单的护送任务，前往凶险的赞德林城（Zandrine）。在面对黑暗阴谋与挥之不去的往事纠葛时，他们必须学会协调各自作为战士、术士、林中人与盗贼的不同角色。为了在赞德林城致命的秘密中存活，他们必须摒弃前嫌，在被敌人或是内心的恶魔摧毁之前，结成一个真正紧密的团队。

近期的一场 Hacker News 讨论凸显了对无 DRM（数字版权管理）电子书日益增长的需求。尽管许多商业平台仍依赖限制性锁定措施，但用户正越来越多地整理那些提供无 DRM 内容的作者和出版商名单，例如 Tor、Baen、The Pragmatic Programmers 以及科利·多克托罗（Cory Doctorow）。参与者指出，识别这些书籍颇为困难，因为许多零售商在购买前并未明确标注 DRM 状态。一些用户建议使用 Bookshop.org 的筛选工具，或利用 Standard Ebooks 等专注于公共领域作品的网站来提高获取便利性。此次讨论反映出人们强烈渴望拥有一个类似搜索引擎的、用户友好的集中式目录，让读者能够轻松查找、购买并合法拥有不受技术限制的高质量数字图书。评论者表示，支持销售无 DRM 文件的作者是倡导消费者所有权并抵制亚马逊等大型平台“围墙花园”的重要方式。

原文

Timothy Zahn

The Icarus Needle

Ten thousand years ago, a mysterious people known as the Icari vanished from the Spiral, leaving behind a network of portals that can instantaneously transport passengers hundreds or thousands of light-years across the stars.

Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene have been tasked with seeking out these alien artifacts and bringing them under the control of the Icarus Group. But the Group’s leadership has changed, and Roarke soon finds himself at serious odds with the new director’s plans.

The result: a counter-plan that lands Roarke and Selene on a distant world with a broken city, a dozen portals, and a group of aliens called the Ammei who dream of using the portals to bring back their own glory days.

But their ambitions will be costly, and not just for themselves. Roarke and Selene must put together the scattered clues and solve the riddle of the Ammei and their plans, while at the same time fending off the Patth and their bid to claim the city and portals for themselves.

Because the Icari are gone . . . aren’t they?

Kacey Ezell

Blood on the Sand

Bellatrix Aelys turned her back on the family that betrayed her and chose to forge her own destiny alongside the dangerous men she had accidentally bound. Now free, Romik, Vil, and Daen make the uneasy choice to continue to work with Aelys as her protectors and business partners. But when Aelys faced off against her family, she didn’t eliminate every threat, and now mysterious forces are moving against her once more. Fearing for her safety and that of her men, Aelys agrees to do a simple task for her old teacher: escort some old “friends” to Zandrine, one of the fabled cities located in the south of the empire.

Only, not everything is as it seems. Zandrine is a city built on secrets and blood and pain. Aelys and her protectors will have to face the demons of the past and the dark schemes of the present, all while trying to figure out who they are to one another and how the four of them— warrior, sorceress, forester, and thief—can meld their strengths to keep each other alive.

Can Aelys, Romik, Vil, and Daen make the necessary hard choices that will forge them into a team capable of surviving these new challenges? Or will the pain of the past and the danger of the present destroy them one by one?