Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz · first published 2023
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Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come.
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…envy without the notes at the end about how much the author hates writing them?) I liked the self-published We are Legion (We are Bob) which I found at the Salvation Army. Also https://www.amazon.com/Terraformers-Annalee-Newitz/dp/125022... for a very recent book.
on “Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing” ↗I liked this one https://www.amazon.com/Terraformers-Annalee-Newitz/dp/125022...
on “Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]” ↗…And yes, there are non-fiction books, like the Bible and "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws", but those can also be approached with a dose of lightheartedness. [^1] The Terraformers, By Annalee Newitz. Go, buy it, read it. It has real science in it, nothing else needs to be said.
on “Feedback Is Rarely a Gift” ↗…the same one over and over. And of course these folks are always negative and not positive, they aren't going to talk about what you should move on to, or even that you should read something like The Terraformers which (1) is pretty good no matter how you slice it and (2) represents an NB point of view. Contrast that to a healthy culture in Japan where 4-panel comics that have come up in the last four years have…
on “It's Time to Move on from Harry Potter” ↗…bootstraps. Newer literature is more sophisticated as the hero becomes more socially involved. It definitely happens in Pohl’s Heechee series and also Vinge’s The Peace War but you don’t see it in The Terraformers by Newitz as the characters are born into the post-human. Commercially there is a lot to gain from ‘future histories’ but they have a way of blowing up: exponential leveling can be sometimes contained,…
on “D&D is Anti-Medieval” ↗