How has this not yet been transposed into a Sinbad in Space story?
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Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Captain Sinbad 🤣
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I think Sinbad was the first big adventure exploration book I ever read. Easily the best subset of the Arabian Nights. The big innovation was making a trader the hero rather than a mythic warrior hero.
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Even as a kid, I appreciated the fact that Sinbad made money off each adventure and returned richer every voyage. And didn’t apologize for it. He kept going adventuring out of restless boredom, not some heroic call.
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Secondary character who only gets hero points to the extent he acts against trader instincts
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“The Merchant Trade” by Stross might count but they’re really more interdimensional smugglers than traders per se
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I keep increasing my estimate of how big a problem this is. We need our merchant heroes.
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