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

On 1/19/2022 6:51 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> 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")

Yes.
Also:

Robert Silverberg "Nightwings"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwings_(novella)
Roberet Silverberg "Stepsons of Terra"
   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1705162.Stepsons_of_Terra

and of course, one of my first reads,
Edmond Cooper "Seed of Light"
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1931069.Seed_of_Light