The nitrogen fix

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• jmclnx · May 21, 2023 · Recommends

  Outside of some of the ones listed here, here are a couple of others: * Alan Dean Foster -- Call to Arms, in this case the we are the strong ones. * Hal Clement -- Nitrogen Fix, replace Nitrogen with CO2 in your head and this could be rather current :) * An obscure one I liked, but I forgot the Author and Title -- Seems Interstellar Travel could be achieved with 15th Century…

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• jerf · Jul 11, 2025 · Recommends

  …you're interested in a counterexample to your direct claim, which involves another catastrophe that makes the worst predictions of climate change look like human paradise, I would recommend to you "The Nitrogen Fix" by Hal Clement. I won't spoil what the catastrophe is in case you might be interested in reading it, but Google will spoil it readily if you prefer.

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• billswift · Nov 22, 2009 · Mentions

  …Clement's work, especially "Mission of Gravity", "Close to Critical", and "Cycle of Fire". "Iceworld" and his next to last "Half Life" are interesting but not as well written as some of his others. "The Nitrogen Fix" isn't paritcularly well written either, but is an interesting near future, post-unexpected-apocalypse novel. Note Clement was a high school science teacher, and tried to make all his science at least…

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