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By We had crash-landed on the planet. We were far from home. The space- ship could not be repaired, and the rescue beacon had failed. Besides me, only the astrogator, part of the captain, and the ship’s AI mind were left. Little existed on the planet except des- erts of snow. But alien artifacts lay in an area near us. We were an exploration team, so this discovery had oddly comforted us, even though we had been on our way elsewhere. The massive systems failure had no discern- ible source, and the planet had been our only choice for landfall. Outside, the atmosphere registered as hostile to most organisms. …
摘自《麻省理工科技评论》(MIT Technology Review)第129卷 第3期 · 2026年5月刊,Jeff VanderMeer。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。