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

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 06:40:03 -0800, 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"

Then there are "Rescue Party" and "History Lesson" both of which have
ET encountering an empty Earth.

>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