I was mistaken when I stated in How It Looks To Fenn that nothing is happening among the outer planets. Fenn again mentally reviews the Solar System:
Mercury and Venus are uninhabitable infernos;
(Mars, which he does not mention here, has been colonized both by Terrans and by Lunarians;)
machines have occupied the asteroids and the outer moons and have long since exhausted their exploitable resources;
Lunarians occupy Proserpina and the comets.
Rumours circulate, causing unrest on Earth and Luna. On Mars, Terrans have heard from Lunarians who have heard from Proserpinans that there are Life Mothers and life everlasting in the extra-solar colonies...
We need a Volume V of this future history series.
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Kaor, Paul!
We get a hint at the very end of THE FLEET OF STARS of what a fifth volume might be like: original stock humans and Lunarians bursting out of the Solar System and going their own ways in all directions. Defiantly rejecting the Teramind and its smothering "planned society." Meaning they would rather accept all possibilities, good and bad.
GENESIS shows us what Anderson speculated would happen if mankind failed to break the strangling grasp of the AIs.
Ad astra! Sean
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