The Ring of Charon
by Roger MacBride Allen · first published 1990
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When Larry Chao, a junior scientist, figures out a way to control artificial gravity via the ring and unauthorized surrounding Charon, he makes a grave mistake. He allows an otherwise unknown alien race called the Charonians to disappear the Earth via a created wormhole. This story is masterfully told in two separate perspectives. The remaining humans not located on Earth and Earth's destroyers, the Charonians.
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…Still not pretty, but at least you would avoid things like cramming 20 kamikaze welders in space suits inside a Proton fairing per lunch to turn ISS to a space arch. BTW, on this note I can recommend The Ring of Charon[0] and its follow-up books. In this case, its Earth suddenly vanishing due to some ancient alien technology being activated by mistake. The book then follows the consequences for the advanced but still…
on “Why Not Mars” ↗There's an old sci-fi book called Ring of Charon you might not like then :) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513160.The_Ring_of_Charo...
on “New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black hole” ↗…looking for information about the hobby can't find the straightforward content among all the advertising-laden copies. With regard to science-fiction predicting the info tsunami, Roger MacBride Allen’s The Ring of Charon from 1990 uses it as a plot point (but this is not otherwise a very good book).
on “Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning” ↗Tangentially related, the SF author Roger McBride Allen mentions a similar concept as part of the backdrop of one of his novels, "The Ring of Charon". I actually find the idea more and more plausible as time goes on. The relevant excerpt (which is also the only detailed mention in the book) is: "... And hatred for the Knowledge Crash. If you could…
on “The Complexity Barrier (2003)” ↗