telepathy
teleportation
mutants
longevity
immortality
scientifically rationalized magic
interplanetary exploration
slower-than-light interstellar travel
a generation ship
several scientific rationalizations of faster-than-light travel
several versions of Martians
other aliens
extraterrestrial environments, ecologies and evolutions
cosmological sf
eight future histories, including Heinleinian and Stapledonian models
time travel, with both paradoxes
alternative histories
the Frankenstein question ("Is it right to create human beings?")
robots
conscious artificial intelligence
a predictive science of society
future warfare
dystopian futures
post-nuclear-war Earth
space opera
excellent contributions to several other authors' series
- but not artifacts larger than planets, as in:
the Ringworld Tetralogy and "Bigger Than Worlds" by Larry Niven
the Orbitsville Trilogy
the Bowl Of Heaven Trilogy by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven
The Lords Of Creation by SM Stirling
And now we know the answer to an earlier question:
CS Lewis' Ransom Trilogy is set on Mars, Venus and Earth;
SM Stirling's Lords Of Creation Trilogy is set on Venus and Mars and in a Dyson Sphere.
4 comments:
Dyson Spheres are -enormous-. One 1 AU in diameter would be about 550 million times the surface area of Earth. Lots of possibilities!
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
We s aw some of those possibilities in your THE LORDS OF CREATION. Entire civilizations could rise and fall in the Dyson sphere in your story without ever being aware of each other. Or other hominin species like the Neanderthals could be living there.
Ad astra! Sean
You can spin them to create gravity at the equator, and then put 'knobs' on the poles to keep it uniform, too.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I like that idea! I don't think our current level of technology would allow us to build Dyson spheres--but we should certainly be building rotating ring habitats with artificial levels of gravity for different rings. It's frustrating that the US has not. Sick of the ludicrously tiny and antiquated ISS!
Ad astra! Sean
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