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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jun 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Alyssa Rosenberg

    Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy is great (although the science is dated now). It would make a great series for HBO or Netflix -- maybe the latest Mars news will perk interest.https://twitter.com/AlyssaRosenberg/status/1137059717971357696 …

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    Alyssa RosenbergVerified account @AlyssaRosenberg
    I truly would enjoy nothing more than forcing Trump to sit through an audio book of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy without looking at his phone. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1128050996545036288 …
    11:58 AM - 7 Jun 2019
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      2. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 7 Jun 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I'd like to see a New York 2140 series.

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      3. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 7 Jun 2019
        Replying to @nothingsmonstrd @HeerJeet

        IAWTC. It'd not only be way more relevant than Red Mars, it'd even be way more entertaining...🙂

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      2. John‏ @jptormey 7 Jun 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I'm reading it now for the first time and the dated science stuff is barely noticeable, which must have been on purpose. He misses the ubiquity of pocket screens but nails realistic AI: machines that learn to do basic construction tasks.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Jun 2019
        Replying to @jptormey

        The dated stuff was about Mars topology and climate. Terraforming Mars is going to be much more difficult than KSR thought.

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      2. I am an island‏ @tlyczko 7 Jun 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It’s excessively optimistic about political change.

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      3. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 7 Jun 2019
        Replying to @tlyczko @HeerJeet

        (nods) I believe it. IIRC, It's even more excessively naive as to why the United States of America or the Russkies would want to bother spending their hard-earned Nation-State monies to jointly go to Mars at all.

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      1. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 7 Jun 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        🤔It's not just the science that's dated *now*: The *economics and politics have been dated for years, going on decades*. Every now & then I try to google a certain back copy of SF Eye that made this very critique in the mid to late 1990s...😵🙂

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      1. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 7 Jun 2019
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        Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick Retweeted Kyle Griffin

        Oh, btw, His Mikeness, or whomever the VP is using as emissaries in the oval office, apparently were able to reach him between May 13 and June 7:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1137070480274395137 …

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        Trump on May 13 vs. Trump on June 7 pic.twitter.com/duwWnQHbfd
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      1. Frank Herbert West‏ @DSA_Arrakis 10 Jun 2019
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        Or just as good, give The Expanse the budget it needs

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