Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Issues II

Andersonian futures feature post-nuclear reconstruction, relativistic interstellar travel, human immortality and human-AI interaction.
-copied from here.

Post-Nuclear
In the Maurai History: alternative technologies;
in Twilight World: mutations.

Relativistic Interstellar Travel
In the Kith History: space-dwelling traders;
in Tau Zero: accelerating time dilation;
in The Avatar: T-machines;
in the Rustum History: extrasolar colonization;
in Tales of The Flying Mountains, a terraformed asteroid used for STL interstellar travel.

Human Immortality
In The Boat Of A Million Years: mutant immortals surviving through history into an indefinite future;
in World Without Stars: an antithanatic for every human being;
in "What Shall It Profit?," organisms can be immortalized only by shielding them underground from all radiation.

Human-AI Interaction
In the Harvest Of Stars Tetralogy: AI and human beings develop separately but cannot share the same planetary system;
in Genesis: the Terrestrial AI re-creates extinct humanity.

Comprehensive or what?

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I would have included TALES OF THE FLYING MOUNTAINS in your list of relativistic stories of interstellar travel. The "framework" of the book and the very last story "Recruiting Nation" used Emett geegee technology as a means of using a terraformed asteroid for STL travel.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
Done.
Paul.