Re: [tor dot com] Empty Earths: Five SF Stories Set on a Depopulated Planet

"Michael F. Stemper" <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:46:20 -0600

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On 19/01/2022 08.40, a425couple wrote:
> On 1/18/2022 6:14 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Empty Earths: Five SF Stories Set on a Depopulated Planet
>> https://www.tor.com/2022/01/18/empty-earths-five-sf-stories-set-on-a-depopulated-planet/
> 
> I read there,
> "12. NomadUK
> Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:23am
> Clarke’s Childhood’s End doesn’t feature a depopulated Earth
> during most of the book, but it sure heads in that direction."
> 
> Yes, and a fair number of his short stories also
> have Earth in decline.  i.e.:
> 
> "If I forget thee. Oh Earth..."
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Forget_Thee,_Oh_Earth
> "The Next Tenants"
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Tenants
> "Publicity Campaign"

I'm not much of a one for Clarke. However, his short story, "The Road
to the Sea" is set on a pastoral, depopulated Earth:

<http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?56744>

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
If it isn't running programs and it isn't fusing atoms, it's just bending space.