Saturday 27 November 2021

Back In The Solar System

While Nicholas van Rijn's Solar Spice & Liquors Company sells cinnamon, ginger, pepper, cloves, tea, whisky, gin and wines to extra-solar colonials, what happens in the Solar System?

A move to space has solved energy problems on Earth.

Terrestrial cities become Integrates.

An extra-solar species colonizes Mars.

Adzel from Woden learns the Terrestrial science of planetology and several human languages and converts to Buddhism.

Some chauvinists organize a Festival of Man.

Sixteen-year old Jim Ching has a car that he can fly above the ocean. He also wants to fly with Betty Riefenstahl to Baja, then to:

"...a restaurant featuring outsystem food."

Sounds OK. How much chance is there that our world will develop into something like that?

4 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

For at least some of these things there is at least a chance of them coming to exist. Such as using the energy to be found in space on Earth.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

I wouldn't call the people who organize the Festival of Man chauvinists, exactly. Keeping in touch with your ancestors is a good thing.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

I agree about respect for ancestors. But the propaganda for the Festival sounds xenophobic:

"...the false glamour of ideas never born on man's true home..." (p. 180)

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And I mostly agree with Stirling! I did not find that Festival of Man chauvinistic in any seriously bad sense.

Ad astra! Sean