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

[email protected] (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) 19 Jan 2022 14:51:32 GMT
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In article <[email protected]>,
a425couple  <[email protected]> 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"
>
>Also, two of Orson Scott Card's:
>"Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" (1996)
> 
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastwatch:_The_Redemption_of_Christopher_Columbus
>
>"The Folk of the Fringe" (1989) is a collection of post-apocalyptic stories
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Folk_of_the_Fringe

And Simak's "City" tales, at least the later ones.  Also, um,

	Van Vogt	"The Monster"
	Ted Reynolds	"Can These Bones Live"
	Edmond Hamilton	"Requium"
	Don A. Stuart	"Twilight" & "Night"
	Andre Norton	_The Last Planet_
	John Varley	_Steel Beach" & co. (for some values of "depopulated")
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