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A science fiction story set in this time would be truly epic and beautiful.
by api 8y ago
A science fiction story set in this time would be truly epic and beautiful.
- vatys 8y agoTruly. But a story which inevitably must end with expansion, cooling, and a new need to huddle around stars.
- mikeash 8y agoOur story inevitably ends with the Earth roasting and then freezing as the Sun ages. There’s still lots of good stuff to tell in the meantime.
- evanb 8y agoThe Integral Trees (Larry Niven, 1984) is about a society living in a ring of gas around a neutron star. Not quite the same, but a similar interesting astrophysical idea.
- Zuider 8y agoSpace 1999 was a little like that. The premise was that the moon was blasted out of the Solar system into interstellar space. Somehow, the doughty denizens of Moonbase Alpha managed to encounter a new planet with intelligent life in nearly every episode. That would have required the stars to be pretty close.
- phs318u 8y agoThanks for the reminder. I was completely OBSESSED with that show as a kid.
- zzedd 8y agoI seem to remember an episode in Stephen Baxter's "Evolution" where two dinosaurs discuss the idea of technical progress but were stymied by a catastrophic event.
- christudor 8y agoTau Zero by Poul Anderson is an interesting little novel that touches on some of this stuff.