Tuesday 6 March 2018

Extra-Solar Colonists

In Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, several sets of extra-solar colonists neither maintain urban civilization nor revert to illiterate savagery:

Freeholders;
Aenean tinerans;
Altaian nomads;
Nyanzans.

There are different:

planetary environments;
technologies;
ideas about how to organize society.

Given the premises of an FTL drive and of many terrestroid planets to colonize, many diverse forms of society should be possible.

This lap top is going slow and will be switched off for a while.

1 comment:

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Kaor, Paul!

I would argue that Nyanza did have one true city, albeit fairly small. And many towns built in the warm, fairly shallow oceans.

Sean