Anderson's The Winter Of The World;
Asimov's Second Foundation;
Blish's "Watershed."
Another comparison that has already been made (see Ganymede II) is with other fictional accounts of the colonization of Ganymede.
Both in this Epilogue and in "Watershed," human beings have adapted to other planets and are about to reclaim Earth. However, Anderson's Homo Superior will make Earth bloom whereas some of Blish's Adapted Men will instead colonize the now desert planet Earth as it is. Sf gives us every possibility or at least every speculation.
Next, maybe a consideration of social conditions in Anderson's World Without Stars.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
If Earth was ever to become a desert world of the kind seen or glimpsed at the end of TWILIGHT WORLD, I would rater any effort to reclaim it took the form of again making it blue, green, and white, a living world. So I'm glad the successors of the Old Humans, Homo Superior, chose to take that road.
Sean
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