![]() ![]() Rick Robinson expands upon that in his essay The Dun Hills of Earth.Īs an amusing side note, in a science essay called " The Sight Of Home" Isaac Asimov once calculated how far an interstellar colony would have to be from Terra before Sol was too dim to be seen in the colony's night sky with the naked eye. Having said that, I must point out that Charles Stross has an incendiary essay where he is of the opinion that space colonization is implicitly incompatible with both libertarian ideology and the myth of the American frontier. This is the trope called Settling the Frontier. No colonized planets = no Galactic Empires. Which is good for science fiction writers interested in writing about interstellar empires. If a paradise planet was discovered and starships are available, the number of potential Martian colonists would be a drop in the bucket compared to the Paradise colonizers. In our solar system, the planet Mars is a pretty inhospitable place to live, but there are large numbers of people who'd jump at the chance to colonize the red planet, just for the sheer romantic awe of it all. Remember that the main difference between a colony and a base is that the inhabitants of a colony do not intend to ever leave. The artist painted the girl a little older than she was described. In the novel, this scene is more "big brother protecting his little-girl sister" than it is "Manly man rescuing silly damsel in distress who stupidly forgot her pistol"
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