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Thinking along those lines, a desire to "have children" may have even been bad - no built in stopping point. New child every year, resources overwhelmed...
by Izkata 5mo ago
Thinking along those lines, a desire to "have children" may have even been bad - no built in stopping point. New child every year, resources overwhelmed...
- trumpdong 5mo agoThere was a science fiction story I read about that once, an alien species that would die if they didn't give birth every year. I think they tried everything from hormone modification to mass baby dump pits but they couldn't maintain a stable society for longer than about fifty years when overpopulation killed everyone, so thrt just gave up. Actually more than one, because I also read one about scientists deciphering messages from aliens who used the word for "baby eater" to mean "good"
- Izkata 5mo agoThe first one sounded familiar and I've definitely read the plot summary of this before, but not the book so I don't know if the rest of that description applies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye The other one appears to be https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15744759-three-worlds-collide https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15744759-three-worlds-co... (summary and review at https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/up854p/three_worlds_collide_is_one_of_most_compelling/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/up854p/three... )