Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at
Space Colonization
On 3/21/24 10:07 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization
What wondrous discoveries await the pioneers of tomorrow? In many cases, final ones.
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-stories-featuring-unsuccessful-attempts-at-space-colonization/
Most colonies in Wells' Murderbot series are established by
corporations, and they can fail additional "corporate" reasons beyond
the failure modes we're more familiar with (like hostile environment,
disease, etc) - the corporation can go bankrupt, or there's a hostile takeover, or not enough resources are given for terraforming &
adaptation, or the corporation needs to hide or disavow the existence of
said colony.
I don't remember any particular colony being featured, but it comes up somewhat often in Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky that colonies get lost,
and/or fail, and/or implode, especially in the technology-restricted Zones.
Tony
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