tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post8262258730907049701..comments2024-03-28T18:59:57.979+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: A FrameworkKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-37724596982411526442017-04-14T15:50:07.993+01:002017-04-14T15:50:07.993+01:00Kaor, Paul!
But that was about 600 years before F...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />But that was about 600 years before Flandry's meeting the Duke of Mars and I would expect HUMANS to also have colonized Mars as time passed. Situated as it was in the Solar System I would expect humans to have become the majority by the time the Empire arose. So, I think SOMETHING might have been to terraform Mars.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-83633657598473768702017-04-14T08:32:55.749+01:002017-04-14T08:32:55.749+01:00Sean,
But, as far back as van Rijn's time, ir ...Sean,<br />But, as far back as van Rijn's time, ir had been colonized by extra-solars for whom it was a habitable planet.<br />Paul.paulshackley2017@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704115766930975286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-21361100689494252692017-04-14T07:57:21.433+01:002017-04-14T07:57:21.433+01:00Kaor, Paul!
We know that in Anderson's Techni...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />We know that in Anderson's Technic Civilization stories that Venus was terraformed, even if it was not quite satisfactorily completed. See as well Anderson's story "The Big Rain" (in the Psychotechnic series) for how that might be done. And Jerry Pournelled wrote a non fictional article of the same name advocating how he would terraform Venus.<br /><br />All this made me wonder if the Mars of the Technic Civilization series was also terraformed. After all, we see the elderly Duke of Mars talking to Flandry in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS on the possibility of him retiring to his ancestral estates on that planet. So, was Mars terraformed? <br /><br />Sean Sean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com