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Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest explores this idea, mostly to point out that there is no acceptable method to choose who gets evacuated and who stays behind. The au
by dharmab 8y ago
Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest explores this idea, mostly to point out that there is no acceptable method to choose who gets evacuated and who stays behind. The author argues through his characters that any attempt at evacuation would create immediate and violent conflict between humans.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoSee also Seveneves[1], where a similar evacuation does indeed have some downsides. It's also a theme in one of my favorite Ted Chiang stories, "Mono no Aware"[2]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves 2: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/mono-no-aware/ http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/mono-no-aware/
- mcrider 8y agoSeveneves and the Dark Forest series are literally the last two (sets of) books I read and they are so wonderful. The last book in the Dark Forest series in particular has some of the most mind-blowing concepts I've encountered in SciFi.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoViolent conflict hasn't stopped things from happening in the past; it seems overwhelmingly unlikely to stop an evacuation either.