Ancestors

Toot

Written by Cobra Mk III on 2024-11-10 at 19:49

I'm now re-reading the Red Mars trilogy. I laughed out loud when in Green Mars I read this: 'That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.'

I think I saw a mention of this here last week, but it was fun reading it in the book.

[#]anarchists #libertarians #redMars #scifi

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Descendants

Written by Chris L on 2024-11-10 at 20:05

@pare a good series Altho incredibly dated in terms of what nationalities work with the US for science work. No Desi presence at all. Still a relatively optimistic future history.

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Written by Cobra Mk III on 2024-11-11 at 04:31

@jayalane Yeah, the age shows in many places.

There is some mention of Desi people, but it's still very much 'Russia-US cooperate, Japan is a major economic power' type world. I can understand why, but as you said incredibly dated.

I kind of began to re-read it because of @cstross writing about living off Earth, and the Weinersmiths' 'City on Mars'. It's also somewhat optimistic on how easy it is to live on Mars.

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Written by Charlie Stross on 2024-11-11 at 09:17

@pare @jayalane "It's incredibly dated" because it was published 1992-96, so written in the late 80s—nearly 40 years ago! (I seem to recall the start of "Red Mars" was round about now. Stan wrote it when the most recent info we had about Mars came from the Viking missions, which ran from 1976-1982.)

Geopolitically, while he saw the decline of the USA, nobody back then foresaw the Chinese and then Indian economic miracles of the 21st century.

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