Every day , newfangled revelations about financial misconduct amount out , and the Bernard Madoff dirt seems to be the steer of the crapheap . But revere not — science fiction is here to make sense of it .
Lately , I ’ve come up across a pair of good word of skill fiction novels / novellas about financial hustling and transgression . ( Plus , of course , we had ourown post a while backabout economic depressions in SF . )
https://gizmodo.com/the-greatest-depressions-and-economic-recoveries-of-s-5051532
Marooned : Science Fiction Books On Marsrecommendsa novella called “ Tenbrook On Mars ” by Dean McLaughin , which originally seem in Analog a few months back .
McLaughlin ’s report incorporate Mars Petro , a publically hold space energy companionship whose origin price collapse when it adjudge failure in the wake of a catastrophic stroke . The consequence of the financial nuclear meltdown : direct Don Tenbrook and several thousand other company employees are stranded on Mars . The governmental bailout : Space Administration purchases disquieted assets from the ailing Mars Petro , including the spaceship Edgar Burroughs , Giovanni Schiaparelli , Percival Lowell , and Raymond Bradbury , in an attempt to rescue Tenbrook and his colleague .
Meanwhile , I came across a passport ( not certain where ) for Hostile Takeover by Susan Shwartz , about financial analyst CC Williams who ’s visiting the far - toss Vesta colony to scrutinise it . Apparently , she name insider trading and fraud , which conduct to murder — and which might convey down the whole human monetary organization , and wipe out the entire human race .
I found it on Google books , and read some of it just now . It includes a section on “ fiscal Darwinism , ” where the evil future corporations ( are there any other kind ? ) thrust the “ rock blackleg ” in the outer arrangement to betray their business , by jack up their rate . The Vespa colony is the most profitable , because it comprise all the ores needed to make data processor chips , and the futures indices back on Earth are all tie up in its success .
And last , another great series about financial wrangling and wrongdoing is the Jump 225 trilogy by David Louis Edelman , whichwe’ve recommended before . ( I was sad to realize the third book wo n’t be out until spring 2010 . ) The trilogy ’s master character , Natch , is a shady operator who is n’t afraid to resort to role player and two-fold - transaction to get his way . But he ’s a babe in the woods liken to some of the other fiefcorps , which are prepared to interpose “ black computer code ” into their enemies just to boost their rankings on the exchange .
https://gizmodo.com/multireal-is-your-antidote-to-science-bashing-scifi-5047488
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