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") -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..