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underground tests on Mercury is to blast out a large cave on the planet to serve as a future Mercury base. This is clearly the most economical way of conducting an engineering project of this kind.”
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Bruce Sterling, whose ‘Shaper/Mechanist’ sequence
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North
In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: “There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.” They have mistaken the
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“You shouldn’t be talking about a new
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Joan D. Vinge wrote about a demarchist society in her enjoyable pacey novel The Outcasts of Heaven Belt.
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North
