If we fuck up the Earth too badly, we may just have to live somewhere w.o a magnetosphere, or at -180°C unpreparedhttps://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/802858966732701696 …
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Replying to @asteris
The Expanse is a pretty reasonable near-future yarn, but it's exodus presumes some terraforming, radiation shielding, centuries of sacrifice
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Replying to @asteris
Also the lack of robots in the series makes it rather implausible.
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Replying to @MJ_Cruickshank
true that. Stephenson's swarms of quasi-contemporary worker bots in Seveneves (and a lot of other fiction) is more plausible
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Replying to @asteris
Yeh Seveneves was the best space scifi I've read in years.
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Replying to @MJ_Cruickshank
btw, pretty solid mil scifi trilogy this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17605440-the-red … and Stross' Saturn's Children is The Expanse's flipside
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Replying to @asteris
I'll check it out. Right now I'm finishing off the rather disturbing "The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi https://www.amazon.com/Water-Knife-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/080417153X …
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oh man, Bacigalupi's books are so realistically dystopic they're hard for me to read, I keep intending to get to them all
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