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

In article <[email protected]>,
a425couple  <[email protected]> wrote:
>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
>

Not familiar with yours except "Nightwings", and I wouldn't call the
planet depopulated.  There were whole guilds of people.
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