Fallen angels
by Larry Niven · first published 1991
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Science Fiction satire/adventure published in 1991 novel by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. Near future/alternate future in which anti-technology forces control Earth, while a struggling colony survives in orbital space and on the Moon. Science fiction fans on Earth work to save downed astronauts.
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Fallen Angels by Niven et al. It's a bit light-hearted though.
on “Ask HN: Have you read any good “Cli-Fi” (climate fiction) books?” ↗Ok, I'll put it out there... Fallen Angels by Niven and Pournelle.
on “Why Science Fiction Authors Need to Be Writing About Climate Change Right Now” ↗…stance in the scientific literature was uncommon. Among some of the popular press, there certainly were articles by Newsweek and Time on the possibility of a new ice age. (Or in SF, Larry Niven wrote "Fallen Angels" (1991) on the premise that anthropogenic warming was actually preventing an ice age from coming.) Then again, some of the recent popular press also had a lot of articles about the 2012 phenomenon, based…
on “The Coming Ice Age: A true scientific detective story (1958)” ↗…class while the Enlightenment was being covered in history. (So it's not so much that society turns their back, they just don't get it in the first place.) This would be kind of an update of Larry Niven's Fallen Angels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(science_fiction_... You certainly won't find any Cabrini-Greens in, say, Louis XIV's France... Are you really claiming that slums entirely arose in the…
on “Science Fiction, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done?” ↗…actions is to counter-balance cooling caused by volcanos, the solar cycle, and/or othe factors. In other words, there's no change because the of the defendants' actions. (This is the background to Niven's Fallen Angels.) In that circumstance, should the plaintiffs pay the defendants for the benefits that they provided? If not, why not?
on “A Messy Loss for Climate Lawsuit Plaintiffs” ↗…of much of the continental US. Read rather a lot of topical science fiction based on this "science". Of course it was all man's fault (ignore that we're due for another Ice Age anytime now, see e.g. Fallen Angels: http://www.baen.com/library/ -> The Authors -> Larry Niven) due to sulfur dioxide increasing the reflectivity of clouds.
on “Nixon was told: sea level would rise by 10 feet in 31 years” ↗It reminds me of the attitude of the totalitarian party in charge of the US in Larry Niven's Fallen Angels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(Niven,_Pournell...
on “It’s dangerous to think humans have a destiny outside Earth” ↗If memory serves, they have a notable mention in the Niven-Pournelle novel _Fallen Angels_.
on “Sony Data Discman” ↗This person seemed like someone with a lot of axes to grind, and on investigation they co-wrote one of the worst science fiction books I've ever read ('Fallen Angels').
on “The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven” ↗