What do sf writers say?
A theocracy in the US and a hiatus in interplanetary travel;
the Regions of Earth formed their Federation and Stephen Byerley became the first World Co-ordinator;
spaceflight and associated sciences banned by the Krushchevgrad Proclamation;
refugees from Earth devastated by nuclear war had colonized the humanly habitable Mars;
UN world government and colonisation of Venus;
recovery from the Chaos and exploration of the Solar System;
interplanetary exploration;
extrasolar colonisation and out-system shipment of convicts;
the High Kingdom of Montival.
OK. Which nine future history series am I quoting?
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Off the top of my noggin, I'll make some guesses!
REVOLT IN 2100, From Heinlein's Future History
We see Stephen Byerley and the Federation in Asimov's "The Evitable Conflict," one of his Robot stories.
In Anderson's TWILIGHT WORLD, we see refugees from a nuclear war devastated Earth colonizing Mars.
"The Big Rain," From Anderson's Psychotechnic Institute future history.
"The Saturn Game," by Anderson shows recovery from the Chaos and exploration of the Solar System. Earliest of the Technic History stories.
An Earth dominated by a Co-Dominium of the US and USSR discovered the Alderson FTL drive and the CD began exiling political malcontents and "undesirables." See Jerry Pournelle's THE MERCENARY.
The High Kingdom of Montival? S.M. Stirling's Emberverse series, of course!
The Kruschevgrad Proclamation stumps me, however!
Sean
Near-future SF tends to date quickly, which is why I don't do it. Also, in earlier generations the futility of trying to predict the future hadn't become so radically apparent because much less of it had been done.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
Which is why PA preferred to set most of his stories either in the far future or the remote past. But I think even his "dated" continues to often read well.
Sean
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